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From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Berkeley Strikes Back?
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Date: 4 Aug 92 00:55:13 GMT
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jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick) writes:

>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?

No, it sounds right.  UCB/CRSG was signing stock AT&T academic licences.
Again, please allow for hazy memory . . . the first few UNIX licences I
saw were from Western Electric for UNIX v7 and System III.  That clause
appeared with the V32 release, and UCB wouldn't sign.  Therefore the
last licence they signed was probably from WE.

Can one of the BSD folks or somebody with a good collection of ";login:"
verify this sequence?
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