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From: josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx (Jose Angel Vela Avila)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: license required for BSD unix?
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Date: 10 Apr 91 19:51:24 GMT
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jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:


>  You need two licenses in order to be able to get the full BSD sources. 
>First of all, you need a source license from AT&T.  This is *very* expensive
>for commercial sites, and somewhat less expensive (although still not a
>negligable amount of money) for educational institutions.

>  Once you've got the AT&T license, you sign a license agreement with Berkeley.

>  The reason you need an AT&T license is that the BSD source code has some
>AT&T code still in it.  CSRG at Berkeley is trying to remove as much of that
>code as possible for 4.4BSD; I don't know if they're going to succeed in
>removing all of it.  If they do, the AT&T license will no longer be necessary,
>and I suspect they'll charge only distribution costs for the sources.


 *MOST* important part :

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>  Incidentally, as they free parts of BSD of AT&T code, the put it onto
>uunet.uu.net in the /bsd-sources directory (although I don't know how often
>they update it).  So there is a lot of code there you can browse through that
>is freely redistributable.

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>  In any case, the right people to contact to talk to about questions like
>these are:

>        Distribution Coordinator
>        Computer Systems Research Group
>        Computer Science Division, EECS
>        University of California
>        Berkeley, California 94720

>	(415) 642-7780

>	bsd-dist@Berkeley.EDU

>-- 
>Jonathan Kamens			              USnail:
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 So... csh sources in wuarchive are not ilegally...


 OK.. with this I think everything is OK... ok?


see you ..


Jose A. Vela A.

josevela@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx