From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 7 10:55:35 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA29442 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 10:55:35 -0800 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (sri.MT.net [204.94.231.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA29437 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 10:55:29 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA26304; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 11:57:46 -0700 Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 11:57:46 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199511071857.LAA26304@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: raoul@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Raoul Golan) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.4BSD-Lite documentation In-Reply-To: <199511030311.OAA01908@kiwi.ind.tansu.com.au> References: <199511030311.OAA01908@kiwi.ind.tansu.com.au> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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