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Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!ferkel.ucsb.edu!oinker!jim
From: jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick)
Subject: Re: Berkeley Strikes Back?
Message-ID: <jim.712886149@oinker>
Organization: University of California, Santa Barbara
References: <158frnINN5cn@agate.berkeley.edu> <MIKE.92Jul30085914@majestix.cs.uoregon.edu> <1992Jul30.193017.28689@gateway.novell.com> <1992Aug3.010714.13359@athena.cs.uga.edu> <scs.712849571@hela.iti.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1992 23:55:49 GMT
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In <scs.712849571@hela.iti.org> scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes:
>The current AT&T licences contain a similar statement.  It was not
>always there.  If memory serves, it was the appearance of this
>statement in the licence that caused the Regents to stop getting AT&T
>source.  They did not sign a licence with that statement.

That's curious.  I read the current brief and they included as an exhibit
a source license for Western Electric, but they didn't include a copy of
the license which Berkeley agreed to.  Seems odd, doesn't it?

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