Subject: Re: oldest boot record?
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/30/2002 12:35:02
On Friday, 29 March 2002 at 14:57:10 -0500, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, maximum entropy wrote:
>
>>> Note, however, that 386BSD contains some AT&T license-encumbered source
>>> code, so *technically* it's not legal to redistribute.  However, the legal
>>> situations surrounding this fairly minimal amount of code have passed some
>>> time ago, and it's likely that AT&T no longer cares about this 10-year-old
>>> distribution....
>>
>> Wouldn't this be covered by the new Caldera license, as a successor to
>> 32V?
>>
>> ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/Caldera-license.pdf
>
> I don't know the specific source files in question, but my *guess* is that
> this would probably cover it.  However, I can't guarantee that.

Yes, it covers it.

> In any case, minnie.tuhs.org has copies of 386BSD readily
> downloadable, as noted.  <g>

That's why they're available :-)

Greg
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