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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!vixie!vixie From: vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: The 4.4BSD-Lite distribution announcement Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd Date: 24 Apr 94 10:54:24 Organization: Vixie Enterprises Lines: 21 Message-ID: <VIXIE.94Apr24105424@office.home.vix.com> References: <2p4ieg$89j@agate.berkeley.edu> <Cons40.6H2@bull.nl> <2p9d10INN63i@theben.mch.sni.de> <JOSHUA.94Apr22231703@sleepy.retix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: office.home.vix.com In-reply-to: joshua@sleepy.retix.com's message of 23 Apr 1994 06:17:02 GMT > the part that confuses me is this: we have an at&t source license. the > chances of me convincing management to spend $2500 on 4.4 encumbered > for me to play with are small to nonexistent. but *if we obtained it > elsewhere* it would be perfectly legit for us to have, yes? the berkeley > portions are publicly redistributable and we have a license for the > at&t/usl/novell/beatrice portions. No. The 4.4BSD non-lite "encumbered" distribution is covered by a separate license from UCB, which happens to require that you show them various parts of your UNIX 32V-or-later source license. Just having such a license does not give any other UCB license-holder the right to provide you a copy of 4.4BSD-encumbered. Having the 32V++ license is important, but you still have to go through UCB to get 4.4BSD. Wait for 4.4BSD-lite. Predictions are that it'll be available via anonymous FTP all over the place within hours of the first tapes being shipped. -- Paul Vixie Redwood City, CA decwrl!vixie!paul <paul@vix.com>