Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 18:04:24 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Craig R <craigery13@hotmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1.0 outlawed? Message-ID: <20020222180424.T494@k7.mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <F254IggMN42HzoKwNGq0001896e@hotmail.com>; from craigery13@hotmail.com on Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:29:01PM -0800 References: <F254IggMN42HzoKwNGq0001896e@hotmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:29:01PM -0800, Craig R wrote: > According to the FreeBSD web site, FreeBSD 1.X was based on 4.3BSD-Lite > (``Net/2''), which suffered some legal troubles. Does this mean that any > copy of FreeBSD 1.X lying around is illegal? I'm asking because I'd like to > find a copy somewhere to install it and see what it was like. Yes and no... It was illegal, but since a couple of weeks ago the sources of the original AT&T UNIX have been released under a kind-of-BSD-license. So the 'tainted' 4.3BSD release has suddenly become 'untainted'. The FreeBSD CVS repository only goes back to FreeBSD2.0. There was a short discussion in -hackers about it also. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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