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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: 4.4-lite? Date: 23 Jul 1994 23:46:34 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 27 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.94Jul23194634@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <2vgvc7$3tg@spruce.cic.net> <Ct75oE.75p@newsserver.aggregate.com> <30h9jl$fg4@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <MYCROFT.94Jul20171702@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1994Jul23.135545.2277@cm.cf.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: paul@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk's message of Sat, 23 Jul 1994 13:55:44 +0000 In article <1994Jul23.135545.2277@cm.cf.ac.uk> paul@isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk (Paul) writes: Charles, I've posted in the 386bsd groups a very specific case of how NetBSD 1.0 will be tainted. This is not scaremongering on the part of myself or any other FreeBSD members. The simple fact of the matter is that Net/2 was declared tainted in its entirety, You can't go keeping bits of it and then claim a totally unencumbered source tree. Paul, as I said, you *clearly* do not understand the legal issues. There is *no possible way* that `all of Net/2 was declared tainted', unless USL claims, for example, a copyright on GCC. The fact is, we know what was tainted and what we had to change, and we did it. (Actually, we did a lot more than necessary, but that's not relevant.) It's quite obvious that various people are just trying to scare people into not using NetBSD, and it's rude, childish, and pathetic. -- - Charles Hannum NetBSD group Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sun4c, mac68k, pc532, da30. In progress: sun3, pmax, vax, sun4m.