From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 02:50:44 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 BB1F837B401 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 02:50:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kurush.osdn.org.ua (external.osdn.org.ua [212.40.34.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A28E43FDF for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 02:50:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from never@kurush.osdn.org.ua) Received: from kurush.osdn.org.ua (never@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kurush.osdn.org.ua (8.12.6p2/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h5B9oX51030747; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:50:33 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from never@kurush.osdn.org.ua) Received: (from never@localhost) by kurush.osdn.org.ua (8.12.6p2/8.12.6/Submit) id h5B9oUI0030744; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:50:30 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from never) Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:50:28 +0300 From: Alexandr Kovalenko To: Terry Lambert Message-ID: <20030611095027.GB93431@nevermind.kiev.ua> References: <000901c32eeb$4b15d4a0$0200000a@fireball> <3EE58CF9.4090B7D3@mindspring.com> <20030610180553.GB91429@nevermind.kiev.ua> <3EE6D74E.37F72459@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3EE6D74E.37F72459@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 09:50:45 -0000 Hello, Terry Lambert! On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 12:16:30AM -0700, you wrote: > > > 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. Ah, I see. I was thinking that it was some other case. About this one I know. -- NEVE-RIPE, will build world for food Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group http://uafug.org.ua/