Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!merlin.usc.edu!usc.edu!raulmill From: raulmill@usc.edu (Raul Deluth Rockwell) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Mach 2.5 made exportable Message-ID: Date: 30 Nov 89 18:49:42 GMT References: <8911300925.AA08682@sage.cc.purdue.edu> <46f3ac66.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> Sender: news@merlin.usc.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 21 In-reply-to: mjs@SAGE.CC.PURDUE.EDU's message of 30 Nov 89 09:25:07 GMT In article <8911300925.AA08682@sage.cc.purdue.edu> mjs@SAGE.CC.PURDUE.EDU (Michael J Spitzer) writes: ;> The November 27 _Unix Today!_ has an article on page 4 regarding ;> Mach, reporting that DARPA has declared Mach 2.5 "now suitable for ;> general distribution." The article states that Mach is no longer ;> subject to export restrictions. ;> So, I guess that this removes one of the hurdles that was keeping ;> the FSF from using Mach. Maybe. You still need an AT&T Unix Source Code License ($100,000 for companies, ...) to get the source. [see article by ross@apollo.HP.COM in comp.os.mach, "Subject: mach sources (long)"] I don't think this is the kind of restriction that can go away without a lot of work. It has certainly been preventing me from investigating Mach in any depth. --