MACH stripped from AT&T code ?

Melinda Shore shore at mtxinu.COM
Fri Aug 17 11:06:57 AEST 1990


In article <3229 at uniol.UUCP> moeller at uniol.UUCP (Klaus Moeller) writes:
>It was said somewhere( I don't know where) that the MACH Kernel
>contains no AT&T code anymore.

This is a *very* common misconception.  The current Mach kernel
contains significant amounts of BSD code and requires an AT&T
license.  The 3.0 Mach kernel will be free of AT&T code, but how
useful it will be to the average user without an environment,
filesystem, device drivers, etc. (all would require licenses) is
left as an exercise for the reader.

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