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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Help: about "user" license
Date: 16 May 1996 14:15:04 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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References: <4n12vq$2sg@raffles.technet.sg> <DrCss8.IA9@hplabsz.hpl.hp.com> <4nc3c1$1sa@news1.goodnet.com>
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In article <4nc3c1$1sa@news1.goodnet.com>,  <hp@doitnow.com> wrote:
> I spoke with Rob Kolstad, President of BSDI, about this issue this
> morning.  And even he seemed to find it difficult to explain this
> licence.

On Amiga UNIX it was based on the number of *different*
user-ids (as seen by who) with exceptions for things like root
and uucp.

*I* think they ought to provide a program that'll tell you how many
licenses you're using.

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