Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!sdyer From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: want new utilities for Berkeley UNIX Message-ID: <985@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Fri, 5-Oct-84 23:20:46 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.985 Posted: Fri Oct 5 23:20:46 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 6-Oct-84 07:09:05 EDT References: <20074@wivax.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 23 You've got it backwards, more or less. A System V license will allow you to run any earlier licensed material, such as programs from Version 6, PWB, Version 7 and UNIX 32/V and System III. Earlier licenses (which are listed here roughly chronologically) do not give you any rights to System V materials. A Berkeley 4.1 or 4.2 license only specifies what you may do with the Berkeley distribution, a prerequisite for which is a UNIX 32/V (or later) license, since it contains proprietary UNIX sources. If the Wang Institute has a System V source license, it would also have the distribution tape, from which you could compile the newer System V utilities. There may be some source-level incompatibilities due to the differences between 4.1 (or 4.2) and System V. For 4.1, I expect that the problems will not be extensive; for 4.2, Doug Gwyn at BRL has a System V compatibility package which allows System V programs to run under 4.2. -- /Steve Dyer {decvax,linus,ima,ihnp4}!bbncca!sdyer sdyer@bbncca.ARPA