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- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: AT&T/USL CD-ROM Review Process
- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!unixland!rmkhome!rmk
- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:42:10 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9212152242.13@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1992Dec14.165913.6896@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Dec14.181906.8513@nrao.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec14.181906.8513@nrao.edu> cflatter@nrao.edu writes:
- >In article 6896@fcom.cc.utah.edu, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
- >>Second, Linux is arguably more like SVR3 (and by extension SVR4) than
- >>386BSD; this, I believe, puts it in more danger of censure. The thing
- >>that has protected Linux so far is its international (non-US) origin.
- >>This is not something USL has to worry about forever, it's simply an
- >>inconvenience to prosecution, not a barrier. If a judgement were given
- >>regarding copyright infringement by Linux against USL's materials, it
- >>wouldn't matter that the judgement occurred in the US; Linus' government
- >>would be forced by the Berne convention to uphold the judgement.
- >
- >Linux is in less danger of censure than 386BSD since Linux was developed
- >from scratch without the use of code that is potentially contaminated by
- >code covered by a USL license. Although Linux is similar to System V at
- >the interface level its kernel design is quite different.
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- Of course, the AT&T lawyers can turn around and say that even though Linus
- didn't have any exposure to AT&T sources, that other contributers might
- have.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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