Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 19:11:33 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: flowers@users.sourceforge.net (Dan MacMillan) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD - Linux / Unix ? Message-ID: <200403280011.i2S0BYf12202@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <FGEIJLCPFDNMGDOKNBABOELBCIAA.flowers@users.sourceforge.net> from "Dan MacMillan" at Mar 26, 2004 10:52:09 PM
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> > > > > > > B. Unix > > > Depends on what you mean by Unix. There is code in it that > > > derives from the original AT&T UNIX. > > > > It is this. Although the idea of Unix may have started in Bell Labs, > > I thought the big lawsuits 10+ years ago and lots of work by early > > developers settled that no code in the current BSD line can be said > > to derive from Bell Labs code. > > Actually, that is not true. The only point the lawsuits settled > definitively is that BSD did not infringe on USL's copyrights. In fact it > was basically stipulated that some parts of NET/2 / BSDi =were= derived > (even copied) from the USL code, but that it didn't matter because the > copyrights being claimed had been abandoned or were invalid for one reason > or another. Interesting - more complicated parts than are usually mentioned. ////jerry > > -Dan >
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