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Rahul Dhesi dhesi at bsu-cs.bsu.edu
Wed Jun 21 17:17:16 AEST 1989


In article <18164 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>X * All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
>X * specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.

Doubtful...For one thing, most people on Usenet don't even have a copy
of the Berkeley software license agreement.  For another, they probably
never agreed to it.

Finally, the very act of posting something to the net violates the
Berkeley license agreement, if the one I have is any guide.  It forbids
distribution of software covered by it to anybody who doesn't have an
AT&T source license.

Perhaps the problem lies partly in calling this license agreement
"*The* Berkeley software License Agreement," which implies there is
only one.  There is probably more than one, and we really should
specify which one.  (Presumably not the one in my file cabinet,
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi at bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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