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At the U of Arizona, university lawyers would staple a page on the BSD =
contract that, among other onerous things, required UCB to indemnify UA =
for all harms related to usage of the software.  A no-go, of course.  =
Dr. Pete Downey discovered that we could run licenses through Kitt Peak =
National Observatory, with offices on the UA campus. The KPNO lawyer had =
the mindset of helping researchers do research, and our licensing =
problems were solved. :)

--whm