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From: bpalmer@bbn.com (Brian Palmer)
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Subject: Re: Mach 2.5 made exportable
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Date: 1 Dec 89 00:03:37 GMT
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In article <RAULMILL.89Nov30104942@aludra.usc.edu> raulmill@usc.edu (Raul Deluth Rockwell) writes:
>;> 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)"]

But the June GNU Bulletin said:

	We hope to use the MACH message passing kernel being developed at 
	CMU. The current distributed version of MACH is not free because it
	contains code from BSD of AT&T origin. However, the MACH developers
	have been working to separate this code from the kernel and they
	now say that they have a first version of this running in alpha
	test.  Once this is stable, the MACH kernel is supposed to 
	become free.

FSF what's the latest news?!!!

Brian