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From: costa@crash.cts.com (Bob Costa)
Subject: Re: USL vs. 386BSD derivatives
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Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 17:02:41 GMT
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Joel Goldberger (Joel@InfoMagic.com) wrote:
: Presumably InfoMagic is not alone among distributors of 386BSD and its 
: derivatives in having received a form letter from USL requested that we cease 
: distribution of any systems derived from the Berkeley Net/2 Tape.  They claim, 
: as they did against UCB & BSDI, that this code violates their copyrights.

: Is there any plan within the Net/Free/386BSD community to address these USL 
: claims ?

: Joel Goldberger
: InfoMagic, Inc.