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From: rsalz@osf.org (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.soft-sys.dce
Subject: Re: DCE secure core and DFS for BSDi?
Date: 18 Jul 1996 05:01:33 GMT
Organization: Open Software Foundation
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In <glvITFG00iWZI8aH5x@andrew.cmu.edu> Marvin A Sirbu <sirbu+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
>Why should one need a source license?  The source code for the RPC has
>been made publicly available by the OSF.

Because the poster was talking about more than just the free RPC --
he mentioned threads, in particular.
	/r$