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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Path: sparky!uunet!kithrup!sef
- From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
- Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 18:56:53 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.185653.3196@kithrup.COM>
- References: <1992Jul22.163407.10823@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <1331@pacsoft.com> <1992Jul24.165236.10937@Warren.MENTORG.COM>
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- In article <1992Jul24.165236.10937@Warren.MENTORG.COM> tal@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Tom Limoncelli) writes:
- >The press releases I was talking about MOSTLY mention OSF! Buying OSF
- >results in USL making 0 $$$.
-
- Not at the moment. The current OSF/1, which is based on Mach2.[56],
- requires a V32 source license, at the least. Since such aren't available
- anymore, you have to get a later version, probably SysVr4.
-
- In addition, OSF specifically licensed parts of the SysVr3.x code from USL
- in order to include it in OSF/1. Specifically, the STREAMS code, as there
- were no such things in the original Mach code.
-
- If OSF/1 becomes based on Mach3.0, *and* the UNIX servers are written from
- scratch, or based on ones that do not contain any USL code (such as the
- Net/2 based one, although that would be as debatable as BSDi's product),
- *then* purchasing an OSF/1 system might not cause in any license fees to
- USL. Maybe; it would depend on whether everything *else* had been purged of
- USL/AT&T code.
-
- Buying Motif from OSF results in USL making $0, true, but that is an
- entirely different kettle of fish.
-
- --
- Sean Eric Fagan | "My psychiatrist says I have a messiah
- sef@kithrup.COM | complex. But I forgive him."
- -----------------+ -- Jim Carrey
- Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
-