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From: dsantry@church.dcss.McMaster.CA (Douglas Santry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: BSD 4.3 (FreeBSD 1.1.5.1)
Date: 22 May 1996 15:17:09 -0400
Organization: Computer Science & Systems, McMaster University
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A small legal question, since BSD 4.3 is "encumbered", does that mean that
*all* of the kernel source code is unusable?  Can somebody, for instance pluck
the network code for the udp-tcp/ip and use it?  Or is the entire source tree
for the kernel hands-off?  Really one can use the code from 4.4-lites ofcourse
but I am just curious...

DJS