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- From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
- Message-ID: <MEISSNER.92Jul28143243@tiktok.osf.org>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 19:32:43 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.165236.10937@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <1992Jul24.185653.3196@kithrup.COM>
- <1992Jul27.164228.28312@gateway.novell.com>
- <1992Jul27.193757.3628@kithrup.COM>
- Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System)
- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- Lines: 17
- In-Reply-To: sef@kithrup.COM's message of Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:37:57 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul27.193757.3628@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean
- Eric Fagan) writes:
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- | >2) OSF has licensed Mentat streams for inclusion, not AT&T. The code
- | > is un-AT&T-encumbered, and runs on many diverse platforms (for
- | > instance, it also runs on VMS).
- |
- | That's nice. They also bought a SysVr3.x license, about three or four years
- | ago, and the code they are shipping as "OSF/1," for both the macro- and
- | micro-kernel stuff, still requires a USL source license, if you want source.
-
- Try System V.2, not V.3.
- --
- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861
- Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142
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- You are in a twisty little passage of standards, all conflicting.
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