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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: UCB and USL/NOVELL settlement
Date: 20 Apr 1994 18:22:14 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au's message of 10 Apr 94 13:08:58 GMT


In article <cproto.765983338@marsh> cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer
Protocol) writes:

   >Actually the outcome of the lawsuit was to encumber the Net/2
   >sources.

   Why did UCB do this ??? Bloody traitors.

You forget 2 things:

1) The Net/2 sources are already encumbered, in that you must replace
them within one year of the release of 4.4Lite if you are distributing
the source.

2) THEY WROTE THE DAMNED CODE.

   >now must display a Novell copyright,

That's a USL copyright, and it does not affect distribution of the
code.

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- Charles Hannum
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