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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!yale.edu!xlink.net!subnet.sub.net!flatlin!bad From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: USL vs. 386BSD derivatives Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 21:40:26 GMT Message-ID: <Co2C7F.E3p@flatlin.ka.sub.org> References: <Joel.2.0011F385@InfoMagic.com> <hastyCnwoL5.F9z@netcom.com> Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department Lines: 24 In <hastyCnwoL5.F9z@netcom.com> hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >I am sure that if usl keeps suing people that eventually they may win >a case :) Might be. And that might affect BSDI too in the worst case. >Also, given that bsd4.4-lite is going to be freely available and that >BSDI continues to release bsd, BSDI has explicit permission to release BSD/386 1.1 in source code until they can update the source base to 4.4-lite. Except for a couple of files which they are allowed to ship only as .o files. (I believe this is an accurate summary.) >it is pretty much senseless for usl >to stop the net2 distribution already available on the Net. Go tell that USL's lawyers. -- Christoph Badura bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org +49 721 606137 Es genuegt nicht, keine Gedanken zu haben; man muss auch unfaehig sein, sie auszudruecken. - Karl Kraus