2.9 and 4.x BOFs

Jim Moore jmoore at opus.UUCP
Mon Feb 4 14:59:00 AEST 1985


> 
> 4.x - Didn't happen. No one from Berkeley came (did anyone tell them?).
> After 1/2 hour, one of the attendees mentioned that he had talked with
> McKusick earlier, and that he said that 4.3 was ready to release (bug fix
> and performance enhancements only), but was tied up in some legal stew
> that would probably last into the second quarter (read Summer). Unknown
> whether a System V license would be required.
> 
> Lyle McElhaney
> -- 

Why not release 4.2+ with the requirement of a System V license?
It is the only kind available from now on, and this might help the
standards effort if all commercial UN*X vendors possessed the same
sources and source licenses.

Jim Moore
NBI, Boulder Co.
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