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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Two process communication programs
Message-ID: <750@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jun-87 11:56:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.750
Posted: Wed Jun 10 11:56:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jun-87 05:36:57 EDT
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Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <651@vixie.UUCP> paul@vixie.UUCP (Paul Vixie Esq) writes:
>I'd like to post the whole thing.  Is this BSD-only code?  What are the
>licensing hassles if it is?  Obviously if it's ATT-derived, I can only
>post diffs, but what about BSD-pure stuff? 

Somebody, give a general answer to this.

Our 4.3BSD license agreement says we can't redistribute anything
to those who do not have an AT&T source license.  This doesn't
make sense to me, since a lot of code in 4.3BSD has nothing to do
with AT&T.  For that matter, I have a nagging feeling that roughly
100% of the kernel itself is independent of AT&T.

So why this overly restrictive license agreement?  Why is it OK
for others to distribute uuencode and uudecode, but not us?  Why
can some people freely distribute sendmail, but not others?

Finally, what about some of the games, which are exclusive to BSD?
Why does AT&T care whether we give them away to others?  If AT&T 
doesn't care, why does Berkeley say that AT&T cares?

Have you ever wondered about the proprietary of government funding
of the development of a terrific operating system, accompanied by
the restriction that only licensees of a certain private corporation
may take advantage of the fruits of that government funding?

4.3BSD OUGHT TO BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  {ihnp4,seismo}!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi