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- From: wheeler@heckle.mitre.org (Brien L. Wheeler)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution requires AT&T license!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.140842.11699@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 14:08:42 GMT
- References: <l6rld6INN3dh@neuro.usc.edu> <1992Jul28.060822.29603@serveme.chi.il.us> <1992Jul29.073959.3841@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca>
- Sender: wheeler@heckle (Brien L. Wheeler)
- Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA
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- In article <1992Jul29.073959.3841@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca>, dennis@nebulus.ampr.ab.ca (Dennis Breckenridge VE7TCP) writes:
- > joeg@gagme (joe grosch) writes:
- >
- > >I urge all those on the net who have copys of either Net2, BSDI, or 386BSD
- > >to start making copys and distributing them as far and wide as possible.
- > ...
- > Are you absolutely out of your mind? Distributing licensed sources is
- > not only immoral but totally illegal. A license is a privilege NOT a
- > right to deal with the sources that were supplied to you in the way
- > that YOU feel is appropriate. This is a waste of bandwidth even flaming you!
-
- Actually, neither Net2 nor 386BSD require the recipient to sign any sort of
- license agreement. I'm not sure what the restrictions are on redistribution,
- but I would assume that since numerous FTP archives have been set up for
- 386BSD, that Bill Jolitz hasn't put any restrictions in place other than
- retaining his copyright notice (Way to go,Bill :-). Source code redistributions
- of Net2 are also allowed if the copyright notices are retained.
-
- BSDI code, however, is proprietary and cannot be redistributed without
- permission from BSDI. So we should spread around Net2 and 386BSD as much
- as possible (although I think 386BSD has a good jumpstart already :-).
-
- You really should make your points more clear or think before you speak.
-
- Brien
-
- -----
- Brien L. Wheeler | I don't speak for MITRE, and they
- blw@mitre.org | don't speak for me.
-
- "When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school..."
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