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Forwarded-For: henry@mit.edu (Henry Mensch)

kingdon@AI.MIT.EDU (Jim Kingdon) writes:
|> They could have instead chosen to sell Athena
|> under the usual do-not-share terms (presumably with a few proprietary
|> "enhancements") (unless I'm mistaken Athena is available under the
|> same terms as X windows).  I say "seems" because the announcement
|> doesn't *quite* say that what DEC distributes will be free.

while i don't speak for Digital Equipment Corporation, MIT or Project Athena
here, it is worth noting that two of the four basic Project Athena network
services (as modified for ULTRIX) are available as a part of ULTRIX 4.0 (and
are, thus, licensed software in this context).  it is my opinion that it is
likely only a matter of time before the other Project Athena network services
become available this way from Digital Equipment Corporation and from other
hardware/software vendors.  i do know that the versions of Hesiod and
Kerberos distributed with ULTRIX 4.0 are not quite the same stuff available
for anonymous FTP on our software distribution host, but i don't know the
scope of the differences.

the Project Athena Network Services software are available on the same terms
as the X Window System.

this availability of the Project Athena Network Services software as a part
of vendor-supplied operating systems does not preclude the Institute's
ownership and/or distribution of the Project Athena versions of this software
(in fact, we spend a bit of time chatting with various vendors in the hope of
making our software more widely available on their platforms).  

(obligatory trademark stuff: ULTRIX is a trademark of Digital Equipment
Corporation.  Project Athena, Athena, Athena Muse, Kerberos, and Hesiod are
trademarks of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.); no
commercial use of these trademarks may be used without prior permission of
M.I.T.)

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