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From: Marvin A Sirbu <sirbu+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.soft-sys.dce
Subject: Re: DCE secure core and DFS for BSDi?
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 16:06:41 -0400
Organization: Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.soft-sys.dce: 16-Jul-96 Re: DCE secure core
and DFS.. by David E. Lindeman@davel. 
>       I was the project leader for a project to do just this; the port
> was never finished because the company decided to commit to NT.  However,
> RPC & pthreads are up and running (1.0.2a source on BSDi 1.1).  CDS was
> not completed and we never started security.  If you were to buy a source
> license for DCE 1.0x, we could probably arrange to get you the changes we
> made. 

Why should one need a source license?  The source code for the RPC has
been made publicly available by the OSF.

Marvin Sirbu