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From: steve@mimsy.UUCP (Steve D. Miller)
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Subject: Re: CMU's Mach in public domain?
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Date: Fri, 20-Mar-87 02:14:33 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 20 02:14:33 1987
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   The copyright notice I looked at (on a Mach kernel file) states
that some of the code distributed with Mach is derived from other
code, and that any previous copyright notices are preserved below
the CMU copyright.  In the case of an obviously 4.3-derived (for
example) module like netinet/ip_input.c, it's clear that CMU doesn't
own it.  In the case of their Mach-specific kernel stuff, though,
I think (but don't know for sure, I admit) that it's theirs to do with
as they will.  That doesn't mean that it will go into the public
domain, become freely redistributable, or whatever...

	-Steve

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