From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 00:18:20 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 1D95437B404 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:18:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF29E43FDD for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:18:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from user-38lc0s4.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.3.132] helo=mindspring.com) by puffin.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19Pzs0-0005x4-00; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:18:09 -0700 Message-ID: <3EE6D74E.37F72459@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 00:16:30 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexandr Kovalenko References: <000901c32eeb$4b15d4a0$0200000a@fireball> <3EE58CF9.4090B7D3@mindspring.com> <20030610180553.GB91429@nevermind.kiev.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a4576274699084f7525a985e9dea39bc49548b785378294e88350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: Craig Reyenga cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Version Release numbers 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: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 07:18:20 -0000 Alexandr Kovalenko wrote: > Hello, Terry Lambert! > > Historically, BSD has used odd minor numbers as new features, > > and even minor numbers as stabilization. > > > > This was broken with 4.4, but that was because of the lawsuit, > > not through any poor intent on anyone's part. > > Which one? What is was about? Can you provide more info? The version 4.4BSD-Lite2 release from UCB had to introduce new code because of the AT&T lawsuit against BSDI and, later, UCB. The lawsuit was settled out of court around August-September of 1994, since USL was found to be in violation of both UCB's Copyrights and Licenses. Information is on Dennis Ritchie's web site, among other places, as well as other locations around the web. It's really old news (over a decade since it was originally filed now). This is why the BSD community isn't worried about the SCO lawsuit against Linux spreaqding to BSD. See also Greg Lehy's recent article in Daemon News. -- Terry