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From: mycroft@zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu (Charles M. Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Another censored piece of mail...
Date: 16 Aug 1996 13:34:45 -0400
Organization: Massachvsetts Institvte of Technology
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deraadt@theos.com (Theo de Raadt) writes:

> 
> The basic story is that Chris Demetriou and Adam Glass pulled pieces
> of encumbered 4.4 source code off vangogh.berkeley.edu while the
> lawsuit was still on-going [...]

Of course, there's a distinction between `encumbered 4.4 source' and
`4.4-Encumbered source'.  The latter includes a large amount of code
that was either written by or donated to Berkeley.  It is pieces of
this code, and not the `magic 7 files', that were integrated into
NetBSD.  In fact, none of this code was actually encumbered, except by
the standard Berkeley freeware license.

This is almost as bad as when Linus claimed that the networking code
in Net/2 was encumbered...