Path: gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net! ee.und.ac.za!inet.up.ac.za!hwposer From: hwpo...@dreamcoat.ee.up.ac.za (Rolf HW Poser) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Come now... Where's 1.1 Relese ? Date: 3 Apr 1994 15:44:32 GMT Organization: University of Pretoria Lines: 23 Message-ID: <2nmo90$ncc@inet.up.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: dreamcoat.ee.up.ac.za X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi Folks ! You said the 13th of March, then you said the end of the month so that some court proceedings could come to an end. Well - we're still waiting, and we would all really appreciate the full release, because there are machines waiting, installations waiting, prople waiting etc.... Rather give yourself lots of time (OK - reasonable amounts of time, not like the Whine project - which is due out in 1999 maybe), than giving people false hopes... So , when is 1.1 Release due ? Cheers, Rolf HW Poser -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- BEng. Chem 4, University of Pretoria, South Africa. email : Rolf.Po...@ee.up.ac.za Fidonet : Rolf.Poser%p23.f22.n7106.z5.fidonet....@catpe.alt.za Tel : +27-12-420-3134 (w) -------------------------------------------------------------------------
Path: gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!darwin.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex! uknet!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: j...@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Come now... Where's 1.1 Relese ? Date: 03 Apr 1994 17:53:14 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <JKH.94Apr3185314@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <2nmo90$ncc@inet.up.ac.za> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: hwposer@dreamcoat.ee.up.ac.za's message of 3 Apr 1994 15:44:32 GMT In article <2nmo90$...@inet.up.ac.za> hwpo...@dreamcoat.ee.up.ac.za (Rolf HW Poser) writes: Hi Folks ! You said the 13th of March, then you said the end of the month so that some court proceedings could come to an end. Well - we're still waiting, and we would all really appreciate the full release, because there are machines waiting, installations waiting, prople waiting etc.... I understand. If you know anything at all concerning the legal profession, then you'll know that it never moves as fast as one would like. Believe me, we'd LOVE to do a full release, but we cannot until USL gives us the go-ahead. On the most positive side, it could be a week or two. On the most negative, it could kill 1.1 entirely, causing us to wait for the 4.4 lite tape to be released so that we can reengineer the bits in dispute. This would see 1.2 released sometime in June or July. We're not `giving ourselves lots of time', USL is giving us no time at all, and this is what we're trying to negotiate. Please be patient and try to imagine how we must feel about this after having 1.1 ready to go all these weeks. Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Raving lunatic
Path: gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!ihnp4.ucsd.edu! munnari.oz.au!news.uwa.edu.au!DIALix!not-for-mail From: datac...@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Datacraft Technology) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Come now... Where's 1.1 Relese ? Date: 4 Apr 1994 21:52:27 +0800 Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia Lines: 49 Sender: datac...@perth.DIALix.oz.au Message-ID: <2np62r$8vo$1@perth.dialix.oz.au> References: <2nmo90$ncc@inet.up.ac.za> <JKH.94Apr3185314@whisker.hubbard.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: perth.dialix.oz.au X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #5 (NOV) In <JKH.94Apr3185...@whisker.hubbard.ie> j...@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >In article <2nmo90$...@inet.up.ac.za> hwpo...@dreamcoat.ee.up.ac.za (Rolf HW Poser) >writes: > Hi Folks ! > You said the 13th of March, then you said the end of the month so that some > court proceedings could come to an end. Well - we're still waiting, and we > would all really appreciate the full release, because there are machines > waiting, installations waiting, prople waiting etc.... >I understand. If you know anything at all concerning the legal >profession, then you'll know that it never moves as fast as one would >like. Believe me, we'd LOVE to do a full release, but we cannot until >USL gives us the go-ahead. On the most positive side, it could be a >week or two. On the most negative, it could kill 1.1 entirely, Why do we need the "go-ahead" from USL ????? Net-2 is still available from most FTP sites which had it previously. If anything then USL might hassle those sites. {Free,Net}BSD have evolved so far from the original Net-2 that USL couldn't get a handle at us anyway. What could they do anyway - take away my PC ? If USL can hassle US FTP sites. Why don't we just set up a site outside of the US ? Does anybody (apart from USL) know what bits of Net-2 they claim is theirs ? If yes please let us know. A few days and we should be able to rewrite the few routines. >causing us to wait for the 4.4 lite tape to be released so that we can >reengineer the bits in dispute. This would see 1.2 released sometime >in June or July. >We're not `giving ourselves lots of time', USL is giving us no time at >all, and this is what we're trying to negotiate. Please be patient >and try to imagine how we must feel about this after having 1.1 ready >to go all these weeks. How close is 1.1-BETA and 1.1 ? Are there patches to bring 1.1-BETA to 1.1 ? If yes how do I get them ? > Jordan >-- >Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Raving lunatic Tibor Sashegyi
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: gmd.de!urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de!newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de! hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de!news.th-darmstadt.de!zib-berlin.de!news.rrz.uni-hamburg.de! news.dkrz.de!dscomsa.desy.de!CERN.ch!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!ames!decwrl! decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: ha...@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: USL vs. 386bsd derivatives Message-ID: <hastyCo01t4.3K3@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) Distribution: comp.unix.bsd Date: Sat, 9 Apr 1994 16:00:40 GMT Lines: 20 Hi, I saw a couple of postings on comp.os.386bsd.questions that USL wants distributors of 386bsd derivatives to stop distribution! Has anyone of the NetBSD team been contacted? Does anyone knows what is going on from the USL side? I find the current situation a bit odd because USL vs BSDI & UCB lawsuits are over... Thanks Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail ha...@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: aha...@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde! sgiblab!majipoor.cygnus.com!kithrup.com!sef From: s...@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) Subject: Re: USL vs. 386bsd derivatives Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. References: <hastyCo01t4.3K3@netcom.com> Message-ID: <Co05D8.8Ax@kithrup.com> Date: Sat, 9 Apr 1994 17:17:17 GMT Lines: 31 In article <hastyCo01t4....@netcom.com> ha...@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: "comp.unix.bsd" is an invalid distribution. Setting 'Distribution: ' to 'comp.unix.bsd' has guaranteed that a growing number of sites around the world either drop or will not forward your article. >I find the current situation a bit odd because USL vs BSDI & UCB lawsuits >are over... The (public parts of the) settlement allow BSDi, and BSDi *alone*, to distribute most of Net/2, although there are a handful of files they may only distribute in binary form. Because of the settlement, UCB no longer has the ability to defend anyone who continues to distribute Net/2. (In fact, UCB is currently in violation of the settlement for continuing to distribute Net/2-derived systems.) Anyone who continues to distribute Net/2 or Net/2-derived code (any part of it, mind you) runs the risk of having to deal with USL. And because UCB can no longer defend the tape, anyone who does so had either better have very deep pockets, or be willing to have a temporary or permanent restraining order thrown against them. With any luck, 4.4BSD-Lite will come out any day now. The person doing it is probably sick and tired of the whole thing by now, and probably wants it out as much as anyone else, if not more. For the free BSD's, after it comes out, there is then the decision of whether to completely rewrite the files and functions that are missing from it, or to use the (possibly unaccaptable to USL) ones currently in their trees. Either way, I would expect a minimum of two or three weeks to do it, and maybe as much as three or four months.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.os.linux.misc Path: gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!ames!decwrl! decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!tgm From: t...@netcom.com (Thomas G. McWilliams) Subject: Re: USL vs. 386bsd derivatives Message-ID: <tgmCo0CB0.77A@netcom.com> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] References: <hastyCo01t4.3K3@netcom.com> Distribution: comp.unix.bsd Date: Sat, 9 Apr 1994 19:47:24 GMT Lines: 26 Amancio Hasty Jr (ha...@netcom.com) wrote: : Hi, : I saw a couple of postings on comp.os.386bsd.questions that USL wants : distributors of 386bsd derivatives to stop distribution! : Has anyone of the NetBSD team been contacted? : Does anyone knows what is going on from the USL side? : I find the current situation a bit odd because USL vs BSDI & UCB lawsuits : are over... Actually the outcome of the lawsuit was to encumber the Net/2 sources. The primary copyright holders, Univ. of California and Novell, *both* have requested the halt of distributions of Net/2 derivatives. The 4.4BSD/lite distribution was suggested as the substitution. The statement released be the University of California asked that free distributions be based solely on the unencumbered 4.4/lite. Part of the reason is that UCB has relinquished copyright claim to portions of the Net/2 tree. These portions now must display a Novell copyright, and evidently Novell seems to be serious about cracking down on copyright violators. Several CD-Rom distributors have already been contacted. Use of the Net/2 tree now requires formal licensing and $$$. Thomas t...@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl! netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: ha...@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: Come now... Where's 1.1 Relese ? Message-ID: <hastyCo2EyH.CMp@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <2np62r$8vo$1@perth.dialix.oz.au> <CnwC7I.JLG@latcs1.lat.oz.au> <Co20tJ.KK9.3@cs.cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 22:39:52 GMT Lines: 62 Perhaps this would begin to shed some light into the current situation... From: t...@netcom.com (Thomas G. McWilliams) Subject: Re: USL vs. 386bsd derivatives Amancio Hasty Jr (ha...@netcom.com) wrote: : Hi, : I saw a couple of postings on comp.os.386bsd.questions that USL wants : distributors of 386bsd derivatives to stop distribution! : Has anyone of the NetBSD team been contacted? : Does anyone knows what is going on from the USL side? : I find the current situation a bit odd because USL vs BSDI & UCB lawsuits : are over... Actually the outcome of the lawsuit was to encumber the Net/2 sources. The primary copyright holders, Univ. of California and Novell, *both* have requested the halt of distributions of Net/2 derivatives. The 4.4BSD/lite distribution was suggested as the substitution. The statement released be the University of California asked that free distributions be based solely on the unencumbered 4.4/lite. Part of the reason is that UCB has relinquished copyright claim to portions of the Net/2 tree. These portions now must display a Novell copyright, and evidently Novell seems to be serious about cracking down on copyright violators. Several CD-Rom distributors have already been contacted. Use of the Net/2 tree now requires formal licensing and $$$. From: s...@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) In article <hastyCo01t4....@netcom.com> ha...@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) writes: >I find the current situation a bit odd because USL vs BSDI & UCB lawsuits >are over... The (public parts of the) settlement allow BSDi, and BSDi *alone*, to distribute most of Net/2, although there are a handful of files they may only distribute in binary form. Because of the settlement, UCB no longer has the ability to defend anyone who continues to distribute Net/2. (In fact, UCB is currently in violation of the settlement for continuing to distribute Net/2-derived systems.) Anyone who continues to distribute Net/2 or Net/2-derived code (any part of it, mind you) runs the risk of having to deal with USL. And because UCB can no longer defend the tape, anyone who does so had either better have very deep pockets, or be willing to have a temporary or permanent restraining order thrown against them. With any luck, 4.4BSD-Lite will come out any day now. The person doing it is probably sick and tired of the whole thing by now, and probably wants it out as much as anyone else, if not more. For the free BSD's, after it comes out, there is then the decision of whether to completely rewrite the files and functions that are missing from it, or to use the (possibly unaccaptable to USL) ones currently in their trees. Either way, I would expect a minimum of two or three weeks to do it, and maybe as much as three or four months. -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail ha...@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: aha...@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X
Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu! swrinde!sgiblab!munnari.oz.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au! news.uwa.edu.au!info.curtin.edu.au!cproto From: cpr...@cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: UCB and USL/NOVELL settlement Date: 10 Apr 94 13:08:58 GMT Organization: Curtin University of Technology Lines: 50 Message-ID: <cproto.765983338@marsh> NNTP-Posting-Host: marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au Summary: UCB and USL/NOVELL settlement Keywords: UCB USL NOVELL t...@netcom.com (Thomas G. McWilliams) writes: >Amancio Hasty Jr (ha...@netcom.com) wrote: >: Hi, >: I saw a couple of postings on comp.os.386bsd.questions that USL wants >: distributors of 386bsd derivatives to stop distribution! >: Has anyone of the NetBSD team been contacted? >: Does anyone knows what is going on from the USL side? >: I find the current situation a bit odd because USL vs BSDI & UCB lawsuits >: are over... >Actually the outcome of the lawsuit was to encumber the Net/2 >sources. The primary copyright holders, Univ. of California and >Novell, *both* have requested the halt of distributions of Net/2 >derivatives. The 4.4BSD/lite distribution was suggested as the >substitution. The statement released be the University of >California asked that free distributions be based solely on the >unencumbered 4.4/lite. Part of the reason is that UCB has relinquished >copyright claim to portions of the Net/2 tree. These portions Why did UCB do this ??? Bloody traitors. >now must display a Novell copyright, and evidently Novell seems >to be serious about cracking down on copyright violators. So now NOVELL is the new "Deathstar". Lets boycot the bastards. I have to decide on a major new enterprise wide network. IT WON'T BE NOVELL. I'm considering BANYAN. Any ideas. Is there any chance of NOVELL/USL being able to prevent us here in Australia from putting NET/2 or {Free,Net,386}BSD up for FTP or even publishing the CDROMs? Is there anybody at UCB or BSDI willing to give us access to the "secret" parts of the settlement? There are ways of posting it anonymously. I believe a reasonably large number of people would have knowledge of these "secret" parts. Also is there anybody who knows which parts are affected by Novells copy- rights? >Several CD-Rom distributors have already been contacted. Use of >the Net/2 tree now requires formal licensing and $$$. >Thomas >t...@netcom.com Tibor Sashegyi (cpr...@cs.curtin.edu.au)
Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu! news.cc.swarthmore.edu!psuvax1.cse.psu.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu! howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh From: j...@sentnl.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: UCB and USL/NOVELL settlement Date: 18 Apr 1994 16:39:27 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Lines: 29 Message-ID: <JKH.94Apr18173927@sentnl.ilo.dec.com> References: <cproto.765983338@marsh> NNTP-Posting-Host: sentnl.ilo.dec.com In-reply-to: cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au's message of 10 Apr 94 13:08:58 GMT In article <cproto.765983338@marsh> cpr...@cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol) writes: So now NOVELL is the new "Deathstar". Lets boycot the bastards. I have to decide on a major new enterprise wide network. IT WON'T BE NOVELL. I'm considering BANYAN. Any ideas. Just to set this particular record straight - in talking with Burt Levine, who is USL's senior legal council, I have been very favorably impressed with his willingness to negotiate with us, even to the extend of spending reasonably large portions of his (what must be very expensive) time to try and work out a reasonable compromise. USL could have just put the boot down and said "HALT." They did not. What they have done instead is talk to us (well me, anyway) about the immediate and future needs of FreeBSD vs those of USL, and what kind of arrangements might be made in order to keep both sides happy. Considering that we're really nothing more than a group of guys who bang this stuff out for fun, their willingness to treat us as legitimate entities in our own right and negotiate with us at all is somewhat surprising. Needless to say, this attitude in any company, much less one the size of Novell, deserves a certain degree of praise. They're not the Deathstar, nor do I believe they can afford to be ("USL sues small group of non-profit UNIX developers, claims UNIX is an Open System! :-)") and I believe they know this. Jordan
Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!bloom-beacon.mit.edu! ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!mycroft From: mycr...@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: UCB and USL/NOVELL settlement Date: 20 Apr 1994 18:22:14 GMT Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 27 Message-ID: <MYCROFT.94Apr20142215@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> References: <cproto.765983338@marsh> NNTP-Posting-Host: duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu In-reply-to: cproto@cs.curtin.edu.au's message of 10 Apr 94 13:08:58 GMT In article <cproto.765983338@marsh> cpr...@cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol) writes: >Actually the outcome of the lawsuit was to encumber the Net/2 >sources. Why did UCB do this ??? Bloody traitors. You forget 2 things: 1) The Net/2 sources are already encumbered, in that you must replace them within one year of the release of 4.4Lite if you are distributing the source. 2) THEY WROTE THE DAMNED CODE. >now must display a Novell copyright, That's a USL copyright, and it does not affect distribution of the code. -- - Charles Hannum NetBSD group Working ports: i386, hp300, amiga, sparc, mac68k, pc532. In progress: pmax, sun3.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!festival! edcogsci!richard From: rich...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: UCB and USL/NOVELL settlement Message-ID: <CoLvp3.AGy@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <cproto.765983338@marsh> <MYCROFT.94Apr20142215@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Apr 1994 10:55:50 GMT Lines: 18 In article <MYCROFT.94Apr20142...@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycr...@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: >1) The Net/2 sources are already encumbered, in that you must replace >them within one year of the release of 4.4Lite if you are distributing >the source. Could you elaborate on this? USL *assert* that the Net/2 sources contain their code, but there is no reason to suppose that they are legally in the right about this. Net/2 was distributed without any rule about replacing it with 4.4Lite and UCB cannot impose any such condition retroactively. So, where does this one-year rule come from? -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, HCRC, Edinburgh University R.To...@ed.ac.uk "Your monkey has got it right, sir." - HHGTTG
Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!EU.net! Germany.EU.net!lemis!grog From: g...@lemis.uucp (Greg Lehey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: UCB and USL/NOVELL settlement Message-ID: <3110@adagio.lemis.uucp> Date: 24 Apr 94 10:07:30 GMT References: <cproto.765983338@marsh> <MYCROFT.94Apr20142215@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <CoLvp3.AGy@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd Organization: LEMIS, W-6324 Feldatal, Germany Lines: 30 In article <CoLvp3....@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> rich...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes: >In article <MYCROFT.94Apr20142...@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu> mycr...@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes: >>1) The Net/2 sources are already encumbered, in that you must replace >>them within one year of the release of 4.4Lite if you are distributing >>the source. > >Could you elaborate on this? USL *assert* that the Net/2 sources >contain their code, but there is no reason to suppose that they are >legally in the right about this. I've compared some of the Net/2 and 7th edition code mentioned in the USL/BSDI settlement and found some minor similarities in code that could have been written by a first year CS student. It's completely unimportant to the function of the system, and could easily (in an hour or so, in the file I looked at) have been replaced. But it wasn't. I believe that USL is correct in stating that these functions were derived from code which now belongs to USL. I believe that they are incorrect in stating that this has resulted in any damage whatsoever to USL or any of their partners. I wish the hell the suits would get this notion out of their collective heads that any code, once written, is the word of God. If they believe this, why do they treat the people who write it so disdainfully? -- --------------------------------------------- Greg Lehey | Tel: +49-6637-1488 LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, | Fax: +49-6637-1489 36325 Feldatal, Germany | Mail: g...@lemis.de