From: asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Satoshi ASAMI)
Subject: Re: Greedy *TT.  BSDI was sued. Quote from Usenet.
Followup-To: fj.unix
Reply-To: asami@CS.Berkeley.EDU
Organization: CS Div., Dept. of EECS, UC Berkeley
Distribution: fj
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:14:22 GMT

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In article <2654@tansei1.tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
        $@B<>e$5$s(J mhiroshi@tansei.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (H. Murakami) writes:

 * [The UC Regents 4.3BSD-NET2 software was claimed not to contain any AT&T
 * derived source code -- as a consequence it was believed by many people to
 * be an appropriate base for development of extremely inexpensive versions
 * of 'Berkeley UNIX' compatible operating systems.  This claim is disputed
 * by AT&T as described below.]

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 * o  AT&T authorized the UC Regents to distribute certain works derived
 *    from their UNIX software to third parties ... subject to restrictions
 * 
 *    o  Those restrictions include a requirement limiting such distribution
 *       to persons who have also acquired licenses from AT&T or USL
 * 
 * o  'Networking Release 2' contains software code that was copied from, 
 *     based upon, or derived from, code licensed to the Regents by AT&T 
 * 
 * o  Any operating system derived from 'Networking Release 2' requires a 
 *    license from AT&T or its successor, USL

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 * o  Whether anyone related to BSDI has ever had access to AT&T UNIX sources

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 * On a final note, BSDI's own press release states that:
 * 
 *   Although USL has not sued the University of California, we expect that
 *   USL (or its parent, ATT) will threaten to review or withdraw research
 *   grants made to any university or research institution using or
 *   distributing software based on NET2 ...

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 * All in all, this filing by a corporate giant with virtually unlimited funds
 * for legal expenses would seem to spell the doom of 'free' UNIX projects as
 * they are presently conceived.

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