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From: bostic@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Tcsh and sources to csh
Message-ID: <36149@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: 9 May 90 21:56:54 GMT
References: <3153@rodan.acs.syr.edu> <55554@bbn.COM> <2849@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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In article <2849@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>, root@cca.ucsf.edu (Systems Staff) writes:
> In article <55554@bbn.COM>, pplacewa@bbn.com (Paul W Placeway) writes:
> > Correct.  Berkeley has not yet suceeded in freeing the rest of csh
> > from the v6 /bin/sh sources.  What I heard is that the latest time
>            ^^---- should that be v7?
> > they asked "is it free now", AT&T responded something like "maybe it
> > is, and maybe it isn't.  Why don't you release it and find out".
> > ...
> > Maybe I should put a file in the FTP/UUCP area called something like
> > "forget_about_tcsh.src_if_you_don't_have_BSD_sources"...
> 
> The only version of csh sources which are freely available that I
> have seen is described in its README file as follows:

The csh contains AT&T proprietary source code from V6.  This
includes all versions of csh of which I am aware, as well as
tcsh.  If anyone wants to fix this problem once and for all,
please contact me.

The version of csh to which Thos Sumner alluded, is, I suspect
the version distributed by U3G (University Unix User's Group), an
AT&T/System V sponsored group.  While U3G's literature mentions
public domain software, and they do include much that is, the
problem is that lots of it is standard licensed software.  Unless
someone knows something that I don't, I suspect that all of the
U3G software must be treated as tainted.

--keith