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From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Source is not free
Message-ID: <733@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 89 08:14:06 GMT
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Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.uucp (Colin Plumb)
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uban@cssisg.dec.com wrote:
> Mach (I think) and BSD and others are all limbs on the source tree
> that roots back to AT&T.  Any group or individual that wants source
> to -any- of these must also purchase a source license from AT&T.

> This fact will probably never change.

I beg to differ on that last point.  You may have noticed almost
7.5 megabytes of 4.3BSD sources on uunet.  It seems this is the part
of the 4.3BSD Tahoe distribution that BSD has determined contains no
AT&T code.  And my understanding is that, due to AT&T being nasty,
they're trying to get rid of the AT&T code in 4.3, so it can all be
publicly distributed.

So it seems that the GNU project is gaining allies.  There is every
hope that a good, free OS will exist in the future.  I am, of course,
tremendously pleased!

On the same subject: I can't find the GCC sources on the 0.8 OD.
Have I missed them, or the three-year offer of source for a nominal fee?
-- 
	-Colin (uunet!microsoft!w-colinp)

"Don't listen to me.  I never do."