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From: andrew@mulga.OZ (Andrew Worsley)
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Subject: 4.2 minix and request for news group
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Date: Tue, 13-Jan-87 18:46:57 EST
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   This is another vote for a minix news group or mailing list. Also to
start discussion off here is an interesting possible development
from minix:

    As you probably know the main (and large cost) for non educational
institutions buying 4.2 (source and binary) is buying the required AT&T
source licenses, which is neseccary as 4.2 contains V7 (I believe it is
V7) source code. How hard would it be to build a 4.2 based on minix's
V7 code taking the 4.2 code from Berkeley's work?  I am sure that
Berkeley would be happy to be released from their bonds to AT&T. How
easily can one do this legally, I mean how can you seperate out code
written by Berkeley and that by AT&Ts? Can you legally work from code
that is AT&Ts and publish it?

		andrew.