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From: vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.bugs.2bsd,comp.bugs.4bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: The 4.4BSD-Lite distribution announcement
Date: 28 Apr 94 02:46:22
Organization: Vixie Enterprises
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In-reply-to: md@bsc.no's message of Thu, 28 Apr 1994 08:19:37 GMT

>I was thinking more of a private distribution only to current license
>holders.  UCB should have a list of who 4.4 was distributed to so it should
>be easy to identify who should have these patches.  If this can't be done,
>then the question still remains, how do people with the original 4.4
>distribution get upgraded to the current level?

Either buy a tape, or get it from a friend.  There is absolutely nothing
in the 4.4-lite license that prevents people from handing it around, either
on tape or via anonymous FTP.  I suspect that now that the tape is out,
FTP mirror sites will spring up all over.
--
Paul Vixie
Redwood City, CA
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