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- From: grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: AT&T sues BSDI
- Message-ID: <1824@adagio.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 17:19:55 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.030532.10307@kithrup.COM> <1821@adagio.UUCP> <14kcimINNcr5@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <14kcimINNcr5@agate.berkeley.edu> wjolitz@soda.berkeley.edu (William F. Jolitz) writes:
- >In article <1821@adagio.UUCP> grog@adagio.UUCP (Greg Lehey) writes:
- >>....
- >>The real issue here is, of course, not the source. AT&T must know
- >>about Bill Jolitz; according to the text here, he's guilty of the same
- >>`crime'....
- >
- >To put any concerns to rest, we have not been contacted by anyone
- >regarding our 386BSD code, nor have we heard anything negative about the
- >386BSD releases. As 386BSD is intended for the research and educational
- >communities and is freely available (not proprietary), all code we have
- >written is fully disclosed.
-
- That's what I expected.
-
- >Please refrain from using inflammatory words such as "crime" with respect to
- >386BSD and the developers, as we are not involved in this matter. We have
- >no relationship with BSDi or CSRG, nor do we condone the actions of any
- >party involved in this dispute.
-
- Bill, don't get me wrong. Note the `' around the word `crime'. I don't
- believe you have done anything wrong, and I don't believe BSDI have
- done anything wrong. But AT&T is claiming that Net 2 contains AT&T
- licensed material. Under those circumstances, whether you like it or
- not, you *are* involved in this matter, and they could theoretically
- sue you as well. The intention of my post was to suggest that AT&T
- isn't interested in doing that, and thus show what the real motives
- for their action are.
-
- >
- >BTW, patches should be out in a few days, if we can ever get through mail.
-
- Keep up the good work.
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