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Amancio Hasty Jr (hasty@netcom.com) wrote:

: Hi,
: I saw a couple of postings on comp.os.386bsd.questions that USL wants
: distributors of 386bsd derivatives to stop distribution!
: Has anyone of the NetBSD team been contacted?
: Does anyone knows what is going on from the USL side?
: I find the current situation a bit odd because USL vs BSDI & UCB lawsuits
: are over...

Actually the outcome of the lawsuit was to encumber the Net/2
sources.  The primary copyright holders, Univ. of California and
Novell, *both* have requested the halt of distributions of Net/2
derivatives. The 4.4BSD/lite distribution was suggested as the
substitution. The statement released be the University of
California asked that free distributions be based solely on the
unencumbered 4.4/lite. Part of the reason is that UCB has relinquished
copyright claim to portions of the Net/2 tree. These portions
now must display a Novell copyright, and evidently Novell seems
to be serious about cracking down on copyright violators.
Several CD-Rom distributors have already been contacted. Use of
the Net/2 tree now requires formal licensing and $$$.

Thomas
tgm@netcom.com