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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!psuvax1!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0, 4.4BSD-Lite, and 4.4BSD Message-ID: <D5DvrD.L42@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <95068.131339SHIH@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu> <kientzleD58Lrq.4Cy@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 14:47:37 GMT Lines: 17 In article <kientzleD58Lrq.4Cy@netcom.com> kientzle@netcom.com writes: >Earlier releases of BSD included Unix source code which meant that you >had to have a Unix source license from USL in order to use it. USL asserted that you needed a license; whether this is true has not been (and probably never will be) legally determined, and USL's position appeared weak at least for the code in the Berkeley Net-2 distribution. >386BSD, FreeBSD, and NetBSD are three different systems that >start with 4.4BSD-Lite, No, 386BSD was based on the Berkeley Net-2 distribution, as were earlier versions of FreeBSD and NetBSD. Perhaps you meant to say BSD386, which I believe is now called BSD/OS or something similar. -- Richard