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Article #74942Use of BSD 4.3 source
From: Leonard H. Tower Jr.
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 1991 00:42
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 1991 00:42
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Errors-To: gnu-misc-discuss-request@cis.ohio-state.edu Sender: gnu-misc-discuss-request@cis.ohio-state.edu Date: 4 Jan 91 22:17:40 GMT From: rsalz@papaya.bbn.com (Rich Salz) Organization: BBN Systems and Technology, Inc. In <10009@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu(Joe Buck)writes: >Berkeley has already made some files in 4.3bsd freely >redistributable; thanks goes to John Gilmore into prodding them to >do it. Not to slight John, but Keith Bostic probably deserve the most credit for changing the mindset of CSRG more than anyone else. /r$ Knowing Keith and John, neither would care to be singled out. There were a lot of people involved, including the policy makers at AT&T who kept raising the prices on the Unix Source License and who refused to sell any more of the old license needed to get BSD source at the old price. Thanx to all of them. Now, if we could only get UCB and CSRG to copyleft ... ;-} -len
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From: tower@AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
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Subject: Use of BSD 4.3 source
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