From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 21 04:54:09 2003 Return-Path: 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 581CA37B404 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 04:54:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta7.adelphia.net (mta7.adelphia.net [64.8.50.193]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BFBC43FBF for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 04:54:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.179.151]) by mta7.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030721115407.QHOJ340.mta7.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:54:07 -0400 Message-ID: <3F1BD45F.5070306@potentialtech.com> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 07:54:07 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Supote Leelasupphakorn References: <20030721041519.4165.qmail@web40603.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030721041519.4165.qmail@web40603.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ask about BSD's history. X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 11:54:09 -0000 [Do NOT cross-post. Post to 1 mailing list at a time.] Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: > Hi, all > > I'm now interested in BSD's history and have read > some of article from INTERNET. But because English > isn't my mother language so I havn't cleared > in the point of > > 1. What is the result of lawsuit between BSDi (maybe > include UC Berkeley) and USL in the early of 1970s ? That the BSDs can continue to do what they do and AT&T has no legal claim to their code. And this occurred in the early 1990s. > 2. The article I've read talk about six files. > What's > the matter ? Six files were determined to be proprietary. As part of the agreement, those six files were removed from the source and rewritten from scratch. Thus there is no longer any code in the codebase that is in danger of a lawsuit. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com