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Date: Sun 19-Feb-1989 23:30:33 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Source is not free > > I also want source code, for several reasons, all of > > which I am sure are familiar to all of us. > > Waiting for FSF to do it will probably be the only way most > individuals can end up with Un*x-ish source on any machine > that they personally own and control. > > Mach (I think) and BSD and others are all limbs on the source tree > that roots back to AT&T. Any group or individual that wants source > to -any- of these must also purchase a source license from AT&T. My understanding is that the AT&T code is being removed from Mach. Several peices of BSD are also being made public domain. If Mach can be completely un-encumbered then it will be possible for FSF to base their GNU product on Mach.... ...thus a freely copiable source code Unix (Mach + GNU actually). Check out the latest GNU newsletters. >From: george@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU
Date: Sun 24-Feb-1989 08:14:06 From: Unknown Subject: Re: Source is not free uban@cssisg.dec.com wrote: > Mach (I think) and BSD and others are all limbs on the source tree > that roots back to AT&T. Any group or individual that wants source > to -any- of these must also purchase a source license from AT&T. > This fact will probably never change. I beg to differ on that last point. You may have noticed almost 7.5 megabytes of 4.3BSD sources on uunet. It seems this is the part of the 4.3BSD Tahoe distribution that BSD has determined contains no AT&T code. And my understanding is that, due to AT&T being nasty, they're trying to get rid of the AT&T code in 4.3, so it can all be publicly distributed. So it seems that the GNU project is gaining allies. There is every hope that a good, free OS will exist in the future. I am, of course, tremendously pleased! On the same subject: I can't find the GCC sources on the 0.8 OD. Have I missed them, or the three-year offer of source for a nominal fee? >From: mike@relgyro.stanford.edu (Mike Macgirvin)
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