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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 4.4-lite?
Date: 21 Jul 1994 12:28:29 GMT
Organization: Rhodes University Computing Services
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In <Ct8o9E.8My@newsserver.aggregate.com> rhealey@sirius.aggregate.com (Rob Healey) writes:
>In article <30h9jl$fg4@pdq.coe.montana.edu>,
>Nate Williams <nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu> wrote:
>>If you are sued, you'll have to prove that it isn't. Starting from scratch
>>makes it *much* easier to prove. According to CSRG, they started removed
>>all tainted sources from their tree, but see where it got them. Given
>>USL's past legal history, I wouldn't want to be in NetBSD shoes.
>>
> You still didn't answer my request:
> WHERE in the NetBSD 1.0 code is there tainted code?
Take a look at the previous postings on this thread! Nobody has
actually said that there *IS* tainted code in NetBSD-1.0. What has
been said, is that it may be more difficult for the NetBSD folks to
prove that they do not have tainted code if USL should ever get nasty
on them (which I hope never happens).
It's all a matter of opinion as to which approach is better to take:
either removing tainted code from Net/2, or starting from scratch with
4.4-Lite. The FreeBSD group has decided that in the long term it is
safest to avoid any chances of litigation by starting from scratch with
4.4-Lite -- the NetBSD group decided that wasn't necessary.
Out of interest (I haven't checked the NetBSD tree on this), have the
necessary USL copyright messages been added to those files on which USL
claims copyright, but is prepared to distribute?
To all of those people who continually have to flame one of either
NetBSD or FreeBSD, remember that both OS's benefit from each other. If
either of them ceased to exist, the other would be the poorer for that.
(If anything, the competetition between the two groups is a healthy
thing to have.)
Geoff.
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