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From: tom@afthree.as.arizona.edu (Thomas J. Trebisky)
Newsgroups: comp.os.mach
Subject: Re: OS kernel sources
Summary: Appeal for public mach release
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Date: 14 Nov 90 20:42:18 GMT
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Well, I thought I would add my "expression of interest" with regard to
making the sources for the Mach kernel available.  I have a virtual memory
68010 machine, waiting for a kernel port onto the bare metal.  Mach would
indeed be an attractive candidate, were it in the public domain, but alas --
a recent inquiry to cs.cmu.edu reveals that a 4.3BSD source license is
needed, because Mach is not clean, it incorporates BSD source code in the
kernel.  Perhaps this means a waiting game for folks like me (Is it not true
that the gnu project is also waiting for a "clean" Mach, at which time it
becomes a candidate for their kernel.)  But life is short, hence this appeal.