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- Xref: sparky comp.unix.bsd:10271 alt.suit.att-bsdi:668
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,alt.suit.att-bsdi
- Subject: Re: AT&T/USL CD-ROM Review Process
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- From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:45:25 GMT
- Reply-To: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly)
- Message-ID: <9212152245.31@rmkhome.UUCP>
- References: <1ge0aaINNm4d@neuro.usc.edu> <1992Dec13.165418.5021@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1992Dec13.183240.23944@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> <1992Dec14.165913.6896@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <1992Dec15.033540.483@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au>
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- In article <1992Dec15.033540.483@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au> pclink@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au (Rick) writes:
- >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.
- >
- >Forgive my density, but prosecution under what grounds? It's my
- >understanding that Linus has written Linux from scratch (with a leg-up
- >from Minix). Surely Andrew Tannenbaum would have more grounds for copyright
- >infringement than USL?
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- Linus didn't do it all. There has been lots of contributors, including
- BSD source.
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- Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
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