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Date:      Tue, 7 Nov 1995 11:57:46 -0700
From:      Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>
To:        raoul@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Raoul Golan)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.4BSD-Lite documentation
Message-ID:  <199511071857.LAA26304@rocky.sri.MT.net>
In-Reply-To: <199511030311.OAA01908@kiwi.ind.tansu.com.au>
References:  <199511030311.OAA01908@kiwi.ind.tansu.com.au>

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> Why hasn't the 4.4BSD-Lite documentation (in /usr/share/doc)
> made it into the FreeBSD source?  I'm talking about the stuff
> that went into the O'Reilly books.
> 
> Is there some sort of copyright restriction?

Yes, much of the docs by O'Reilly are the original Unix(tm) papers
written by Ken and Dennis and are Copyrighted AT&T.  So, much of the
documentation is unfortunately copyrighted and can't be re-distributed.

> I also notice that the 4.4 pascal compiler has been cut out too.
> Not that I need it, but why all this pruning?

Obviously you haven't worked with the American legal system.  When in
doubt about something, SUE! :(



Nate



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