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From: sobrado@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es (Igor Sobrado)
Subject: [TUHS] 2.11BSD license question: porting software to NetBSD
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 18:56:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200304181656.h3IGuGfC028575@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es> (raw)

Hello.

I have just finished porting diction(1) and style(1) from 2.11BSD
to the NetBSD operating system.  Those utilities are a part of the
AT&T Documenter's Workbench (DWB), and are not available on the v7
and 32V UNIX releases.

I asked to the people of the NetBSD Foundation about the possibility
of adding those commands to the base system (as a part of the tarball
with documentation tools) but they think that it is not possible,
as a consequence of a licensing issue.  I supposed that all the
software provided in the 2.11BSD was under a BSD license, but it
looks like 2.11BSD is a closed source release.

Can someone, please, helping me on this matter?  What should I do?
Should I just drop this software?

Cheers,
Igor.

-- 
Igor Sobrado, UK34436 - sobrado at acm.org



             reply	other threads:[~2003-04-18 16:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-18 16:56 Igor Sobrado [this message]
2003-04-19  3:55 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2003-04-19  6:33   ` Derrik Walker v2.0
2003-04-19  7:23   ` Igor Sobrado

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