From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 21 16:44:53 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 16:44:51 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0309637B402 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:44:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 61246 invoked by uid 100); 22 Dec 2000 00:44:48 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14914.41984.88435.836516@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 18:44:48 -0600 (CST) To: Greg Lehey Cc: Mike Meyer , Tyler K McGeorge , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD history In-Reply-To: <20001222110756.T53393@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <55810272@toto.iv> <14913.13535.887486.212993@guru.mired.org> <20001222110756.T53393@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey types: > > The latter was supposedly free of AT&T code, and hence didn't > > require a license from AT&T to use or sell. Many of the people at > > CSRG formed BSDI, to market the software they had written - without > > getting a license from AT&T. 386BSD was also derived from that code, > > and release as an open source project. AT&T objected, there was a > > lawsuit, AT&T got zapped for violating the BSD license, > No, the case was settled out of court. Did I say the case went to court? If you read it as an implication, I apologize, because I didn't mean to imply that. When it was disclosed that AT&T was using BSD-licensed code without following the terms of that license (which was stricter than it is today), that "zapped" the AT&T lawsuit pretty thoroughly, and led to the out of court settlement. BSDI got pretty much what they wanted - the ability to sell BSD without having to get an AT&T license. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Unix/FreeBSD consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message