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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 4.4-lite?
Date: 23 Jul 1994 23:52:03 GMT
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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.