Re: [ossig] USL-UCB BSD/UNIX Settlement Agreement, 1994

["Ahmad Arafat Abdullah" <arafat@xxxxxxxxx>]

yeaps..
it's already stated on FreeBSD Handbook also..

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Around this time, some rather unexpected storm clouds formed on the horizon 
as Novell and U.C. Berkeley settled their long-running lawsuit over the legal 
status of the Berkeley Net/2 tape. A condition of that settlement was U.C. 
Berkeley's concession that large parts of Net/2 were ``encumbered'' code and 
the property of Novell, who had in turn acquired it from AT&T some time 
previously. What Berkeley got in return was Novell's ``blessing'' that the 
4.4BSD-Lite release, when it was finally released, would be declared 
unencumbered and all existing Net/2 users would be strongly encouraged to 
switch. This included FreeBSD, and the project was given until the end of 
July 1994 to stop shipping its own Net/2 based product. Under the terms of 
that agreement, the project was allowed one last release before the deadline, 
that release being FreeBSD 1.1.5.1.

FreeBSD then set about the arduous task of literally re-inventing itself from 
a completely new and rather incomplete set of 4.4BSD-Lite bits. The ``Lite'' 
releases were light in part because Berkeley's CSRG had removed large chunks 
of code required for actually constructing a bootable running system (due to 
various legal requirements) and the fact that the Intel port of 4.4 was 
highly incomplete. It took the project until November of 1994 to make this 
transition, at which point it released FreeBSD 2.0 to the net and on CDROM 
(in late December). Despite being still more than a little rough around the 
edges, the release was a significant success and was followed by the more 
robust and easier to install FreeBSD 2.0.5 release in June of 1995.
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taken from:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/history.html



On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:35:59 +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote
> the agreement had finally been made public. the wording on it is 
> quite clear, on two occasions, USL (whose UNIX rights are now owned 
> by SCO) has agreed not to pursue BSD on any infringements. see it at 
> groklaw, http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041126130302760
> 
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