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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Rick Kelly wrote:

>Jeremy C. Reed said:
>
>>Also, they said some of this problem code was originally based on Dynix.
>
>>SCO's president clearly said "We are not talking about BSD code."
>
>Well, there's a contradiction.
>
>Dynix = BSD
>PTX = SYSV

Not necessarily.  Being `BSD' does not necessarily being USL-free.  In
particular, it was agreed as part of the USL/UCB settlement that
versions of BSD prior to 4.4Lite _do_ in fact contain USL code, and that
code based on certain files in those distributions _is_ in violation of
USL's copyrights.

Likewise, _plenty_ of commercial Unices have brought in parts of other
source bases at different times, mainly to bring in bullet-point
features.

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				Jim Wise
				jwise@draga.com
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