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: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: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.