Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:36:25 +0100 From: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it> To: "Oleg Ogurok" <oleg@ogurok.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Lawsuit with Novel Message-ID: <4.1.19990222191438.009d3f00@194.184.65.4> In-Reply-To: <006b01be5e79$ce490be0$ba96d0d1@birch.ogurok.com>
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At 10.41 22/02/99 -0500, Oleg Ogurok wrote: >Hi all. > >I heard about some lawsuit between FreeBSD and Novel. What was this about? >Any info on web? Just personal curiousity. Thank you. "In 1992, AT&T's subsidiary USL (UNIX System Labs) filled a lawsuit against Berkeley Software Development Inc. (BSDI), the manufacteur of the BSD/386 and (later) BSD/OS operating systems, for alleged distribution of AT&T source code in violation of license agreements. They subsequently extended the case to University of California at Berkeley." (The Complete FreeBSD, Lehey) The final agreement arrive in 1994 between Novel (who had bought the right from AT&T in the meantime) and BSDI. Novel was attribuited of all rights on NET/2 distribution, but in exchange bless the new upcoming 4.4BSD to be free from any duties. FreeBSD and all other OS based on NET/2 distribution where obliged to be rewritten using only source code from 4.4BSD (which they are prepared to do in any case...). FreBSD 1.1.5.1 was the last based on NET/2 and was released in July 1994. They worked hard to release the new version, even because the 4.4BSD was not fully complete at this time. FreeBSD version 2.0 was the first relase based on the 4.4BSD and was released in December 1994. Then in January I arrived and bought my first CD, but I was not able to install it. :-) Is it correct ? Any actors can confirm ? Best Regards, Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" http://www.giovannelli.it/~gmarco http://www2.masternet.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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