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On Wed, 18 Oct 1995, ucklw08 wrote: > as I undetstand it, their win in court only applied to BSDI Inc and > did not clearly resolve the copyright issue for everyone else. If > you play with NetBSD, 386BSD source code that may be OK -- but if you > market it AT&T's clients (sold to Novell? resold to SCO?) may have > a basis to come after you. Linus owns linux outright. You're thinking of 386BSD, a Bill Jolix creation/port under USL license. NetBSD and FreeBSD were both originally 'patches' to the code. However, with the court case FreeBSD and NetBSD moved to BSD 4.4-Lite and were barred from distributing the older code (you can still legally USE it, they just can't distribute it). The 4.4-Lite code is very stable, and being maintained. People interested should go look at http://www.freebsd.org and read the 'about' and 'history' bits. It is also resellable (if you choose to build upon it to resistribute), _unlike_ the Linux stuff which is under the GPL.