UN*X license for BSD sources ???

[Ed Gould]

>I am considering including a part of the tty driver from BSD in
>a product for non-un*x machines. It is the NTTYDISC part of the
>tty driver. Will it require an UN*X license to distribute it. I
>know that this code was developed in Austria somewhere, and did
>not originate in AT&T.

It will probably require an AT&T license.

The 4BSD license that the Regents of the University of California
require of all 4BSD recipients says, essentially, that the recipients
will treat *everything* on the distribution as if it were AT&T code
subject to the Unix license.

If you can get the original quthor to give you the code without this
restriction, or you can get a written disclaimer from the Regents
(which they don't do), then the AT&T license will be necessary.

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