How much of 2bsd src could be "free?"
Steven M. Schultz
sms at lonex.radc.af.mil
Sat Nov 17 15:16:11 AEST 1990
In article <1990Nov15.165900.3481 at watmath.waterloo.edu> kcwellsch at watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Wellsch) writes:
>How much of 2bsd could be available free like what has been happening
>with 4.3BSD-4.4BSD? I suspect the ever dwindling number of 11's out
>there makes the hassles of verifying with AT&T what is not "AT&T code"
>is not worth the bother. Too bad, I don't have a source license.
alas, not much. there are bits and pieces of the kernel (mostly
in the networking area) and a number of the applications (ftp, rsh,
rcp, login, and so on) which i've ported from the 'liberated'
4.3 sources - but no where near enough to even begin to build
a system with. also, even 4.4 isn't rid of the scourge of AT&T
(yet) the last i heard.
even if a port were done to the 11 of a "liberated" Unix(tm) i
doubt the 11'ers could afford the lawyers to proof it.
*sigh* cities, states, countries recognize "historical landmarks"
and grant all manner of special privileges, etc - it would sure
be nice if the source license restriction would be lifted or eased
for those who want to use the machine that played a major role in the
life of Unix. Any resemblance of the current Unix on a pdp11 to
what it was when at&t "supported" the pdp11 (didn't even implement UMR
handling) is unlikely, but the restrictions remain in place.
oh, i just took delivery of my own 11/73 yesterday - nifty machine!
Steven M. Schultz
sms at wlv.imsd.contel.com (TDY at sms at lonex.radc.af.mil)
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