tcsh source without csh source license

Joseph F. Young jfy at cis.ksu.edu
Wed Apr 3 02:42:37 AEST 1991


christos at theory.tn.cornell.edu (Christos S. Zoulas) writes:

>In article <1991Apr2.021637.8421 at maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> tar at math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes:
>>art at pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson) writes:
>>
>>>tar at math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey) writes:
>>>> [ article asking about tcsh sources deleted .. ]
[...]
>you can get csh sources via anonymous ftp, that place is illegally 
>distributing AT&T sources.

>On the brighter side 4.4BSD csh will be public domain, and tcsh-6.00
>is based on that and will be free also.

>From looking at the sources on wuarchive.wustl.edu, they consist of what
looks to be a complete csh with all the source files which had AT&T code in
them rewritten.  So, it looks to me that there's no AT&T licensing violations
there.
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Joseph Young, Systems Programmer
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