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Earl Wallace (pesnta!earlw) writes:
||If you have a 5.2 source license from AT&T (not from Sears!), you can pass
||licensed source around like it was water.  P-E to P-E, P-E to Customer, P-E to
||DEC, DEC to Data General, Customer to Customer, etc.  Thats how AT&T feels 
||about it.  There was some discussion on the net about BSD source and the
||general feeling is that you need a 5.2 AT&T license. period.  The code in
||BSD was written from tax payer's pockets and thus falls into the public domain
||and the rest of the code is from AT&T.  

But 4.1BSD certainly wasn't developed from System V at all, since
it predates System V. We have a System III license. If a Sys V.2
license would entitle me to use 4.2BSD source, should not a Sys III
source license entitle me to use BSD source which was derived from v7?

Dave Sherman
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