On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:48:46AM -0700, John Clark wrote:

> The rhetorical question I have, is it still the case that BSD in
> any of its major 'free' version, that is NetBSD and FreeBSD
> in any way beholding to AT&T in any way shape or form?

When USL brought BSD to court, they said that BSD had
USL copyrighted content inside of it. That was true
for a few files (3 over about 18000) but a not-funny
thing was discovered: that USL people had stolen massive
amounts of BSD code into their code, ripping off the BSD
copyright licence along the way. The snake had bitten
itself, and pretty hard...

The agreement was that USL gave up, and that they could
not attack people that will base their work over the
code that would for now on be released as the BSD. But
I have already posted a big stuff about that somewhere
else, that you should read:

http://news.gw.com/netbsd.advocacy/3426

I have a copy of the documents about the whole
trial there:

perso.wanadoo.fr/gilbert.fernandes/usl_bsd/

(those files come from kernighan's page)

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