1994 BSD/Unix Settlement Released On Groklaw

davidwr writes "Groklaw has the newly-released-previously-secret 1994 Berkeley/UNIX Systems Laboratories settlement which gave rise to BSD4.4(Lite) (as pdf and text with commentary). This may have an impact on the SCO vs. Linux war."

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[northcat]

a little history

Re:Big Difference - is your reading comprehension

[Herschel Cohen]

The University of California did not agree with the USL contention of ownership of certain files. Indeed, they were quite obviously dubious of the claim. Instead they said if USL wished to pursue other parties it would play no role in their defense until it came to searching U.C. records.

Re:Right, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

The "impact" is that Free/Net/Open exist in the first place. The bigwigs at the various BSDs have always been privy to this agreement, so no suprises.

There's been a lot of paranoid speculation about this agreement over the years, but it's seems like it's exactly how it was reported in the first place -- Berkeley and others had to rewrite certain files and then could continue to develop BSD.

Re:War?

[craw]

While General Greene was not present, his subordinate General Morgan overwhelmingly won the battle of Cowpens. Morgan then retreated on his own towards Virginia and was pursued by Cornwallis; this pursuit was futile.

Greene did "lose" at Guilford, however, the British suffered sufficient casualties to force them to return to their safer coastal areas.

British brutality towards those favorable to the rebels (who they considered traitors) probably did gain them many new friends in the South. Indeed, they did briefly carry out a reign of terror killing many of these "traitors." OTOH, the British did attempt to recruit tories to their cause. This was somewhat successful, except that these forces were somewhat unreliable. Finally, part of Greene's campaign in the south was to try to prevent the recruitment of these tories.

Re:Apple & OS X

[Anonymous Coward]

OSX is a hybrid with BSD and Mach code infused in. next purchased the appropriate rights to use the code years ago (80s). More recent code comes from the freebsd and netbsd projects which the document says are safe.

Re:Terrorism - going just fine, thanks for asking.

[Anonymous Coward]

I was a hell of a lot better off before my government tried to "help".

I'd have to agree. In fact the War or Terror actually hurt my family significantly. When some idiot said that a company called P-Tech *might* have terrorist ties just because they are middle eastern, some reporter found that my mother's company was doing some work for P-Tech at the time and also helping finance a new Cardinals stadium. From this amalgamation of false accusations and implications, the reporter created a huge story over how "Cardin's Satdium Being Funded By Terrorist!" which susequntly caused my mother's company to go under and has left the whole family in a finanacial mess. So thanks to the War on Terror, we're running out of money with no way of getting more (my mother cannot get a new job due to her bad vision and age, and my mother and [unemployed] father are divorced). So thanks a lot President Bush, I feel really grateful for your protection now.

Re:Your post is amusing. let's see why.

[be-fan]

Here is a news flash, most of the remaining insurgents are not iraqi freedom fighters. they are foreign terrorist

Remember the recent US military operation in Fallujah? According to the US general in charge, of the thousand men they captured during that operation, only fifteen were foreigners. The idea that the majority of rebels in Iraq are foreign terrorists is a myth created by the new Iraqi government to make themselves look good to the US, and supported by Americans that don't want to believe that the Iraqis might not want what we're selling.

Re:Big Difference

[sphealey]

hat SCO does not own is the intelectual property or the copyright for Unix, as a matter of fact Novell still owns these according to the APA (Asset Prurchase Agreement)>Ohat SCO does not own is the intelectual property or the copyright for Unix, as a matter of fact Novell still owns these according to the APA (Asset Prurchase Agreement)

Actually, I believe that Novell transferred the trademark UNIX(tm) to The Open Group, and that not even TSG has tried to dispute this.

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Good idea...but they won't be taking it down

[Anonymous Coward]

It was obtained legally by a Groklaw user who used the california sunshine law to get it. It was released to him by the legal department of the University after they reviewed the confidentiality clause and decided they were not precluded from releasing it in this way.

Besides, it remained mostly secret for 10 years--so much has changed now, do you think USL and the University care about it much anymore? I don't. SCO wasn't a party to that settlement so there's not much they can do to cover it up!

Re:Lets not clobber groklaw please:

[sepluv]

Too late to not clobber it.

Groklaw.net is down and says:

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