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- From: gwh@soda.berkeley.edu (George William Herbert)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Berkeley Strikes Back?
- Summary: It works both ways if it has to.
- Message-ID: <158frnINN5cn@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 10:21:43 GMT
- Sender: gwh@soda.berkeley.edu (George William Herbert)
- Organization: Dis-
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- The "Berkeley License" currently gives anyone the right to use
- BSD derived code in any way as long as it's clear it's at the
- users risk and the license is kept on it. That is not set in
- stone. Berkeley could conceivably pull the right for USL to
- resell anything with "Copyright the Regents..." in it,
- or derived therefrom.
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- How long would it take USL to make SVR4x BSD-Free? Six months?
- A year? Eighteen months, plus some while the attorneys haggle?
- The UC Regents don't lose any sales, but USL would...
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- -george william herbert
- gwh@soda.berkeley.edu gwh@lurnix.com herbert@uchu.isu92.ac.jp until 28 aug
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- Disclaimer: I sure as hell don't speak for UC Berkeley, it's Regents,
- or anything else official. Have a nice day 8-)
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