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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Another censored piece of mail...
Date: 17 Aug 1996 16:37:07 GMT
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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References: <DERAADT.96Aug12153527@zeus.theos.com> <el291bfutai.fsf@zygorthian-space-raiders.MIT.EDU>
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Charles M. Hannum (mycroft@zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu) wrote:
: 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...
And of course, there is no truth to the fact that the Linux kernel used
to contain some MINIX code...
:-)
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