From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: sobrado@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es (Igor Sobrado) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 18:56:16 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] 2.11BSD license question: porting software to NetBSD Message-ID: <200304181656.h3IGuGfC028575@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es> 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