Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 12:53:09 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Next release should be called 5.0 (was:4.4 BSD forever?) Message-ID: <20000120125309.A10077@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <200001201918.LAA16321@windsor.research.att.com>; from fenner@research.att.com on Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 11:18:47AM -0800 References: <200001111107.MAA09106@114046.kema.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001111232020.80351-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> <20000111040500.A46259@dragon.nuxi.com> <200001201918.LAA16321@windsor.research.att.com>
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 11:18:47AM -0800, Bill Fenner wrote: > I thought that I had picked up somewhere that Berkeley's agreement with > USL didn't allow major releases without renegotiating the license, but > patches were considered to be OK, so the 4.x releases were all deemed > to be "patches" to 4BSD. Perhaps this is a BSD urban legend? Yes an legend. McKusick [I thought I posted his reply] dispelled it. -- David (obrien@NUXI.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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