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From: kre@mulga.OZ (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: pe.cust.wanted
Subject: Re: BSD software
Message-ID: <656@mulga.OZ>
Date: 12 Mar 85 13:34:23 GMT
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References: <496@lsuc.UUCP> <2692@pesnta.UUCP> <501@lsuc.UUCP> <2693@pesnta.UUCP>
Reply-To: kre@mulga.OZ (Robert Elz)
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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In article <2693@pesnta.UUCP> earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace)) writes:
| I would guess that a version 7 source license is all thats needed for 4.1BSD
| and a System V license (or maybe III) for 4.2BSD and 4.3BSD.
| 
| It all depends on what bits and pieces of AT&T code are in the final release.

You need a 32V (or better) licence for 3BSD 4BSD 4.1BSD and 4.2BSD.
There's no doubt about that - that's all that you need in order to
get any of those systems from Berkeley (or more correctly, all that
you needed at the time in the past when Berkeley would send you one
of those systems).

I'm not certain about 4.3BSD yet, but I suspect (from the nature
of the release - its mosty a "fixed up" 4.2) that a 32V licence
will be enough for that too.  On the assumption that Berkeley
keep doing new releases (which is a BIG assumption), one of
these days you are going to need a better licence than 32V, and
the licence that's needed will probably be the latest AT&T one
at that time.

Most of the utilities would be covered by a v7 licence, the kernel isn't.

"Better" licences include Sys III, Sys V, Sys V.2, and Sys V.2+paging.

(One day I will understand AT&T's number scheme ...)

What all this means, is that if lsuc has a Sys III source licence,
then any current Berkeley code is available to them.