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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: *BSD ILLEGAL??? Date: 16 Apr 1994 20:59:45 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 21 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94Apr16215846@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <2ok76t$h81@Mercury.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: dleeds@MCS.COM's message of 14 Apr 1994 14:57:17 -0500 In article <2ok76t$h81@Mercury.mcs.com> dleeds@MCS.COM (Daniel Leeds) writes: Some weird chap just sent me email in answer to a question I had about NetBSD and FreeBSD...he claims that netBSD and FreeBSD are now illegal and I will get sued 100,000 dollars if I use it. He's on some strange drug, and if you find out what it is, please get him to send me some! :-) Is this man smoking crack before he reads news...does anybody have any idea as to why this freak whould tell me they are ILLEGAL to use. They're not illegal to use. For awhile, the legality of doing _further distributions_ of some of them was a bit up in the air, but for FreeBSD, at least, this has now been resolved (can't speak for the others since I don't know what they're doing vis-a-vis talking with USL legal, as I have). At no time was USL going after users of the system, much less contemplating suing them for any amount of money. Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Raving lunatic