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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Two process communication programs
Message-ID: <776@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Jun-87 16:13:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.776
Posted: Fri Jun 19 16:13:18 1987
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Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
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In article <447@mtxinu.UUCP> ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) writes:
>The license between the Regents of the University of California and
>the party to which they supply a 4BSD distribution does not distinguish
>anything as to its origin.  The UC license states that the licensee
>will treat *all* of the material received under that license *as if*
>it had been received from AT&T, under the terms of the licensee's
>AT&T source license.  Redistributing it without sufficient care is a
>violation of one or both of those licenses.

Right.  And this is why I think the BSD license agreement cries wolf,
thereby undermining its own credibility.  Schedule A, which lists the
files that may not be distributed without AT&T's permission, includes
/usr/src/new/mh/READ-ME.  Here is an extract from this file:

        This version of MH is in the public domain, and as such,
        there are no real restrictions on its use.  The MH source
        code and documentation have no licensing restrictions what-
        soever.  As a courtesy, the authors ask only that you pro-
        vide appropriate credit to the Rand Corporation and the
        University of California for having developed the software.

Now we are faced with a choice:  Should we believe the BSD license
agreement, which says this file is not in the public domain, or should
we believe the file itself, which says it and a hundred others ARE in
the public domain, except that we should as a courtesy provide proper
credit to the Rand Corporation and the University of California?

I'm confused.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  {ihnp4,seismo}!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi