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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
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