Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!agate!ucbvax!cis.ohio-state.edu!sample.eng.ohio-state.edu!purdue!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!jds From: jds@cs.umd.edu (James da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: MINIX on a 486? Message-ID: <35565@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 13 Jun 91 13:52:22 GMT Article-I.D.: mimsy.35565 References: <13393@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1991Jun12.145309.29231@ukpoit.co.uk> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Organization: University of Maryland, Department of Computer Science Lines: 49 In article <1991Jun12.145309.29231@ukpoit.co.uk> paul@ukpoit.co.uk (Paul Wood) writes: >My guess is the "almost free" part is the problem. I understand that it >is not going to be free to private individuals. In fact is going to be >very expensive compared to Minix. Can someone clarify? Here's the copyright notice from a kernel file in the 4.3 Reno release: /* * Copyright (c) 1982, 1986 Regents of the University of California. * All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted provided * that: (1) source distributions retain this entire copyright notice and * comment, and (2) distributions including binaries display the following * acknowledgement: ``This product includes software developed by the * University of California, Berkeley and its contributors'' in the * documentation or other materials provided with the distribution and in * all advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software. * Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors may * be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without * specific prior written permission. * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED * WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF * MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. * * @(#)fs.h 7.10 (Berkeley) 6/28/90 */ Unless they back away from this copyright (why would they?), BSD _will_ be freely redistributable. Any charges would be distribution charges. You can expect to have to pay SOMETHING to get the full sources; either for a tape, or to your phone company to download the files. The AT&T-free portion of 4.3 reno are on UUNET right now; you can get to it via anonymous UUCP on a 900-number. It may be cheaper to buy the 4.4BSD tape, unless you are on the Internet, or can get the code via a local call or clone a tape from a friend. Another possibility is that not all of the next release will be covered by the above copyright. In particular I don't know anything about the copyright on the 386 specific stuff in the "386/BSD" project. Or maybe it won't be entirely AT&T-detoxified. I'm just speculating here; I haven't heard anything to indicate this. Again, I would love to hear from anyone with inside information. Jaime ........................................................................... : domain: jds@cs.umd.edu James da Silva : path: uunet!mimsy!jds Systems Design & Analysis Group