Re: OT: America's Army
Kevin McKinley <ronin2@bellatlantic.net> writes:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:44:34 -0400
> Bijan Soleymani <bijan@psq.com> wrote:
>
> > When was this? It's pretty much been this way since the late 70s and
> > surely since the 80s. Unix was never free at first. Not until Linux
> > came around and the BSD's became free.
>
> Au contraire!
>
> When UNIX was first released it was free as in both freedom and beer.
>
> Then the lawyers got involved. :(
It was developped by AT&T. Did they release it as free software, but
then revoke their free license. If so how did they take it back
later. Is it possible to retract a license like that? If they didn't
why did the BSD's have to get rid of all AT&T code.
Bijan
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