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From: Steinar.Haug@runit.sintef.no (Steinar Haug)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: The 4.4BSD-Lite distribution announcement
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd
Date: 23 Apr 94 14:39:55
Organization: SINTEF RUNIT, Trondheim, Norway.
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In-reply-to: joshua@sleepy.retix.com's message of 23 Apr 1994 06:17:02 GMT

>   : Does this mean that 4.4SD-Lite will not become available on
>   : FTP-sites, or are sites (after paying $1000.00) allowed to
>   : make it available for the Internet community?

They are allowed to make it available. See the recent posting by Keith
Bostic, included below.

Steinar Haug, system/networks administrator	(Steinar.Haug@runit.sintef.no)
SINTEF RUNIT, University of Trondheim, NORWAY
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From: bostic@toe.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Subject: Re: The 4.4BSD-Lite distribution announcement
Date: 22 Apr 1994 21:22:32 GMT
 
In article <Cons40.6H2@bull.nl>, Jos Vos <jos@bull.nl> wrote:
>
>Does this mean that 4.4SD-Lite will not become available on
>FTP-sites, or are sites (after paying $1000.00) allowed to
>make it available for the Internet community?
 
We do not plan on making 4.4BSD-Lite available by anonymous ftp.
There are no restrictions preventing other people from doing so.
 
Keith Bostic
        University of California
        uunet!bostic