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Subject: BSD and copyright issues
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Hi, I expect this is a question you get asked a lot these days, but in 
the light of SCO claims to ownership of Unix copyright and their legal 
action against IBM etc. What is the copyright/legal position with 
respect to FreeBSD?

regards, Mags.