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- From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
- Subject: Re: Selling 386BSD
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.205530.16971@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
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- Organization: Weber State University (Ogden, UT)
- References: <1557@hcshh.hcs.de> <1992Aug14.195609.29096@gateway.novell.com> <1992Aug16.021934.5330@uvm.edu>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 20:55:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug16.021934.5330@uvm.edu> wollman@sadye (Garrett Wollman) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug14.195609.29096@gateway.novell.com> terry@ithaca.Eng.Sandy.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) writes:
- >
- >> That we are able to have a free system now is due in large part
- >>do the commercialization and recontribution of code by companies like
- >>Genentech (which springs to mind; there are others -- check the various
- >>redistribution copyright notices in the source files) to BSD for free
- >>redistribution.
- >
- >I felt that this was an important enough point that I grepped all the
- >copyright notices out of the system that I could find (I forget
- >whether I did a `strings -' on the kernel or something else), and
- >added the following to my /etc/rc:
- >
- >cat <<'EOH'
- >Copyright 1980-1992, Regents of the University of California
- >Copyright 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, Carnegie Mellon University
- >Copyright 1988, 1989, Intel Corporation
- >Copyright 1988, 1990, University of Utah
- >Copyright 1988, Julian Onions
- >Copyright 1989-1992, William F. Jolitz, TeleMuse
- >Copyright 1992, Garrett A. Wollman
- >Copyright 1992, University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
- >EOH
-
- Garrett missed:
-
- ---
- This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
- Rick Macklem at The University of Guelph.
- ---
- This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
- Scooter Morris at Genentech Inc.
- ---
- This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
- Robert Elz at The University of Melbourne.
- ---
- This code is derived from the Stanford/CMU enet packet filter,
- (net/enet.c) distributed as part of 4.3BSD, and code contributed
- to Berkeley by Steven McCanne of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.
- ---
- This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
- William Jolitz and Don Ahn.
- ---
- This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
- Tim L. Tucker.
- ---
- This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
- Don Ahn.
- ---
-
- He got these, but somewhat out of context:
-
- ---
- Mach Operating System
- Copyright 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, Carnegie Mellon University
- ---
- This software is a component of "386BSD" developed by
- William F. Jolitz, TeleMuse.
- ---
- This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
- William Jolitz.
- ---
- This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
- the Systems Programming Group of the University of Utah Computer
- Science Department. Originally from University of Wisconsin.
- ---
-
-
- I also like the expression of this, especially since it isn't a requirement;
- CMU got to express it's feelings without placing restrictions:
-
- ----
- Carnegie Mellon requests users of this software to return to
-
- Software Distribution Coordinator or Software.Distribution@CS.CMU.EDU
- School of Computer Science
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
-
- any improvements or extensions that they make and grant Carnegie the
- rights to redistribute these changes.
- ----
-
-
- And this is just the kernel from:
-
- cd /sys
- find . -type f -exec grep -A 1 contributed {} \; -print | more
-
-
- Terry Lambert
- terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
- terry@icarus.weber.edu
- ---
- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
- or previous employers.
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