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From: cs@Eng.Sun.COM (Carl Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Public domain NFS
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Date: 27 Mar 91 00:00:37 GMT
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> Just got my hands on RFC 1094 (NFS) and it didn't seem to say anything
> about licensing.  Off-hand (not being a lawyer) I didn't see anything
> that would stop me from taking the RFC and creating my own brand of NFS
> for Computer 'X'.  Is there something that keeps me from writing my own
> NFS?  Distributing it or selling it?  If so what and why?

	Nothing at all prevents you from doing this.  Many people (and vendors)
have already done so.  However, if you do, please do your potential users a
favor and bring the implementation to the annual Connectathon (an engineering
interoperability testing event that includes both NFS and X Window System
testing).  Connectathon details are announced every year in the newsgroup
comp.protocols.nfs.

			Carl