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From: kre@munnari.OZ (Robert Elz)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: multihop uucp
Message-ID: <1032@munnari.OZ>
Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 13:33:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 13 13:33:24 1986
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Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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In article <425@hoptoad.uucp>, gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
> It's a shame that ATT won't let BSD adopt stuff from sysV so this could
> be made to work.  (The problem is all the BSD sites that have pre-sysV
> licenses.  ATT won't let them get sysV derived code.)  So much for ATT
> working to unify the unixverses.

I don't think that's really the problem - for some time now Berkeley
have made it plain that at some future time, a SysV licence would be
a requirement for some unknown future unspecified Berkeley release.

The problem at the minute is that SysV licences aren't interchangable,
AT&T in their infinite wisdom have decided that if you have a 68K
Sys V licence (for example) than you cannot be given code derived
from a Vax Sys V.

This is (I believe) the major hurdle at the minute preventing Berkeley
from requiring Sys V licences - which Sys V licence would it be?  Of
course, that's simple, Berkeley would have to require a Vax Sys V
licence, but can you imagine the conversation...

Person: "Here's my Sys V licence, signed Berkeley licence (2 copies),
and your $$$, can I have a BSD tape please?"

Berkeley: "No"

Person: "Why?"

Berkeley: "Your Sys V licence is for a 68k, not a vax"

Person: "But I don't have a Vax, I have a 68K!"

Berkeley: "Talk to AT&T...  It will cost you another $48,000"

This is absurd, rather than unifying the "unixverses", AT&T
seem to be specifically diversifying them.   Wierd!

Robert Elz		seismo!munnari!kre   kre%munnari.oz@seismo.css.gov