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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Unix source
Message-ID: <9352@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Jan 89 16:29:00 GMT
References: <10621@gryphon.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <10621@gryphon.COM> kcallis@pnet02.cts.com (Kim C. Callis) writes:
>  I am new to the Unix world, but if I remember correctly, there used to float
>somewhere out there in the public domain, the entire Unix source from our
>friends up at Berkley. Does anyone know where I can find this source code?

UNIX source code is NOT in the public domain!  It belongs to AT&T.
UNIX source code after hacking on by Berkeley or others is still
the property of AT&T, although the added hacks (only) can be
considered to belong to whoever did them.

There have been some attempts to produce systems resembling UNIX
without using AT&T source code in the process.  The most famous
of these is the GNU project (Free Software Foundation), which
keeps its source code on some machine at MIT (prep.mit.edu, I
think).