Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 11:03:29 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com>, Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Real UNIX history (was: Congrats to Brett Glass for new BSD history article) Message-ID: <20021009013329.GB1415@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3DA36DF9.CD52524F@mindspring.com> References: <20021008145226.K30424-100000@pogo.caustic.org> <3DA36DF9.CD52524F@mindspring.com>
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On Tuesday, 8 October 2002 at 16:44:57 -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > "f.johan.beisser" wrote: >> BSD was always free. the AT&T code for UNIX was not. > > UNIX was free, too. The consent decree from the Greene decision > on the AT&T antitrust case forbit AT&T from making money from > selling software. That didn't make it free. > This was the original "Western Electric" license that UCB got the > UNIX sources under. This is the same license that permitted the > University of Queensland commented source code book to be > distributed. UQ? That was UNSW. http://burks.brighton.ac.uk/burks/foldoc/15/67.htm. You'll note that John got hell for it, though UNIX was still not available commercially. >> yes, there were portions of AT&T code, once those were purged, the >> BSD code no longer fell under the AT&T license, and could be >> distributed freely again. in the meanwhile, the plucky Linux kernel >> jumped out of the woodwork. > > Nice rewrite on history, there... 8-). I think you do better. What part of the statement above do you disagree with? Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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