Return to BSD News archive
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!galaxy.ucr.edu!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: *BSD ILLEGAL??? Message-ID: <hastyCoGwJt.LrL@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2ok76t$h81@Mercury.mcs.com> <1994Apr16.225327.13287@belvedere.sbay.org> <CoGp7p.3IM@waterloo.hp.com> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 1994 18:26:16 GMT Lines: 30 In article <CoGp7p.3IM@waterloo.hp.com> alex@waterloo.hp.com (Alex Dumitru) writes: >David E. Fox (root@belvedere.sbay.org) wrote: >: Daniel Leeds (dleeds@MCS.COM) wrote: > >: : 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. >: Call his bluff. Say "I'm not going to switch, so go ahead and sue me... > >While I don't think it's *illegal* to have it or use it, I wonder what the >policy is for those of us that have source trees that incorporate the >Net/2 distribution, and allow others to browse them and/or download stuff. > Interesting, I think that USL or UCB should make a public statement about thi;specially, if net2 is still accesible on the net. It sounds to me like a scam -- if portions of the net2 are not the property of UCB then why are they still available. Is not like they have to dig through tons of code to extract the files belonging to Novell... I find this all very odd. Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X