From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 26 5:14: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3AE437B401 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 05:14:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from sydney.lemis.com (sydney.lemis.com [192.109.197.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8F743F1E for ; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 05:13:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sydney.lemis.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0QDCGJe001044; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 21:13:34 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from grog@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0Q7la0L001766; Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:47:36 +0800 (WST) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:47:36 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: "Gary W. Swearingen" Cc: Terry Lambert , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lawyers to be sicked on *BSD? Message-ID: <20030126074736.GC1606@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <0gvg0gn1o4.g0g@localhost.localdomain> <3E2F3BE6.A8FEEFA5@mindspring.com> <3E30B7AA.7000008@quadtelecom.com> <3E30C49B.51D10FAC@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 24 January 2003 at 10:02:45 -0800, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > I read that "BSD 4.4-Lite derived code bases" have nothing to worry > about. (Let's assume the settlement says that.) The settlement is secret. > Isn't the Linux kernel derived from BSD 4.4-Lite? No. > There was never much BSD code involved and maybe none by now, but > it's still a derivative. No. > FreeBSD is "more" of a derivative, but much less than it was in > 1995. Is OS/X 4.4-Lite-derived? How much derivation is needed to > satisfy the terms of the secret settlement? Who cares? A year ago Caldera (now SCO) released all the predecessor systems under a BSD license. After that, any other issue is irrelevant. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message