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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:13792 comp.os.386bsd.misc:2393 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!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!lemis!grog From: grog@lemis.uucp (Greg Lehey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: UCB and USL/NOVELL settlement Message-ID: <3110@adagio.lemis.uucp> Date: 24 Apr 94 10:07:30 GMT References: <cproto.765983338@marsh> <MYCROFT.94Apr20142215@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <CoLvp3.AGy@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd Organization: LEMIS, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany Lines: 30 In article <CoLvp3.AGy@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: >In article <MYCROFT.94Apr20142215@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: >>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. > >Could you elaborate on this? USL *assert* that the Net/2 sources >contain their code, but there is no reason to suppose that they are >legally in the right about this. I've compared some of the Net/2 and 7th edition code mentioned in the USL/BSDI settlement and found some minor similarities in code that could have been written by a first year CS student. It's completely unimportant to the function of the system, and could easily (in an hour or so, in the file I looked at) have been replaced. But it wasn't. I believe that USL is correct in stating that these functions were derived from code which now belongs to USL. I believe that they are incorrect in stating that this has resulted in any damage whatsoever to USL or any of their partners. I wish the hell the suits would get this notion out of their collective heads that any code, once written, is the word of God. If they believe this, why do they treat the people who write it so disdainfully? -- --------------------------------------------- Greg Lehey | Tel: +49-6637-1488 LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, | Fax: +49-6637-1489 36325 Feldatal, Germany | Mail: grog@lemis.de