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Date:      Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:04:24 +1100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Craig R <craigery13@hotmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 1.0 outlawed?
Message-ID:  <20020222180424.T494@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <F254IggMN42HzoKwNGq0001896e@hotmail.com>; from craigery13@hotmail.com on Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:29:01PM -0800
References:  <F254IggMN42HzoKwNGq0001896e@hotmail.com>

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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:29:01PM -0800, Craig R wrote:
> According to the FreeBSD web site, FreeBSD 1.X was based on 4.3BSD-Lite 
> (``Net/2''), which suffered some legal troubles. Does this mean that any 
> copy of FreeBSD 1.X lying around is illegal? I'm asking because I'd like to 
> find a copy somewhere to install it and see what it was like.

Yes and no...

It was illegal, but since a couple of weeks ago the sources of the
original AT&T UNIX have been released under a kind-of-BSD-license.
So the 'tainted' 4.3BSD release has suddenly become 'untainted'.

The FreeBSD CVS repository only goes back to FreeBSD2.0.

There was a short discussion in -hackers about it also.

Edwin

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