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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.cais.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!ucsbuxb.ucsb.edu!usenet From: Axel Boldt <boldt@math.ucsb.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX) Date: 01 May 1996 15:38:02 -0700 Organization: Univ of California at Santa Barbara, Dept of Mathematics Lines: 11 Sender: boldt@emile.math.ucsb.edu Message-ID: <ywt91fchved.fsf@emile.math.ucsb.edu> References: <NELSON.96Apr15010553@ns.crynwr.com> <3176D081.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> <4la318$ah3@sidhe.memra.com> <31794DB6.7DE974DF@lambert.org> <940@crane.ukc.ac.uk> <31866E12.67FD83BE@lambert.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: emile.math.ucsb.edu In-reply-to: Terry Lambert's message of Tue, 30 Apr 1996 12:46:26 -0700 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.15 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.development.system:22733 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:892 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:3598 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3454 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18497 comp.os.linux.advocacy:47619 Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> said: Terry> Their Lesstif clone worries me, mostly because of potential Terry> legal problems caused by the way it was developed. They are Terry> implementing interfaces which aren't publically documented Terry> anywhere (programming books, OSF books, etc.) except in OSF Terry> header files and the namelist of OSF libXm.a. Is it illegal to read header files? Axel