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From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: The 4.4BSD-Lite distribution announcement
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
References: <2p4ieg$89j@agate.berkeley.edu> <1994Apr27.074929.1863@newsroom.bsc.no> <VIXIE.94Apr27133921@office.home.vix.com> <2pmrk6$bar@spruce.cic.net>
Message-ID: <Coy234.HHz@kithrup.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 00:44:50 GMT
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In article <2pmrk6$bar@spruce.cic.net> pauls@locust.cic.net (Paul Southworth) writes:
>Anyone know what would happen if you just extracted the "lite" release
>on top of a pre-existing encumbered source tree?

That wouldn't really be feasible, since there were (as far as I could
tell) changes after the original 4.4 release.  Copyrights were changed on
some kernel files, and there were some new files.