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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi Subject: Re: AT&T/USL CD-ROM Review Process Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:45:25 GMT Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Message-ID: <9212152245.31@rmkhome.UUCP> References: <1ge0aaINNm4d@neuro.usc.edu> <1992Dec13.165418.5021@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1992Dec13.183240.23944@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1992Dec14.165913.6896@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Dec15.033540.483@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au> Lines: 24 In article <1992Dec15.033540.483@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au> pclink@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au (Rick) writes: >terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: > >>Second, Linux is arguably more like SVR3 (and by extension SVR4) than >>386BSD; this, I believe, puts it in more danger of censure. The thing >>that has protected Linux so far is its international (non-US) origin. >>This is not something USL has to worry about forever, it's simply an >>inconvenience to prosecution, not a barrier. If a judgement were given >>regarding copyright infringement by Linux against USL's materials, it >>wouldn't matter that the judgement occurred in the US; Linus' government >>would be forced by the Berne convention to uphold the judgement. > >Forgive my density, but prosecution under what grounds? It's my >understanding that Linus has written Linux from scratch (with a leg-up >from Minix). Surely Andrew Tannenbaum would have more grounds for copyright >infringement than USL? Linus didn't do it all. There has been lots of contributors, including BSD source. -- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP