Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!mips!samsung!think.com!mintaka!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!mib From: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell) Newsgroups: comp.os.mach Subject: Re: Q re status of Mach Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 21:58:29 GMT References: <12810@scolex.sco.COM> Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu Organization: Free Software Foundation, Cambridge, MA Lines: 39 In-Reply-To: jeffr@sco.COM's message of 28 Jun 91 19:54:58 GMT In article <12810@scolex.sco.COM> jeffr@sco.COM (Jeff Radick) writes: From: jeffr@sco.COM (Jeff Radick) Date: 28 Jun 91 19:54:58 GMT Article-I.D.: scolex.12810 (a) I have seen discussions of Mach 3.0 in this group. Is it being made widely available, only is access limited? Is 3.0 the most recent version? It is widely available, and 3.0 is the latest version. (b) If it is widely available, what licensing constraints are on source code for Mach 3.0? Is it free of AT&T code? Does it fall into the category of "licensed, but freely distributable" as do other things such as the BSD networking code or the various GNU things? The machine independent parts,, the 386 ports, and the mips port are free. The HP-800 port might be free but doesn't seem to be in the current free distribution (and I'm not sure CMU even has it yet). The other ports all depend on non-free device drivers or startup code or such (vax, sun3, etc.). Free ports would be welcome, and pieces of those other ports are probably free. The conditions are similar to the BSD conditions. (c) If it is freely available, how does one get it? Ftp to mach.cs.cmu.edu for the free parts. (d) If it is not free, but is still available for some cost or with some sort of licensing restrictions, how does one find out more about these costs and/or licensing restrictions? To whom would I speak in order to probe the possibility of obtaining this code? For the non-free parts, you need to contact CMU. I believe Mary Thompson (mrt@cs.cmu.edu) is the correct person to talk to. -mib