dave@gorbash.Rosemount.COM (Dave Marquardt) (01/29/88)
We have the program "rdist" on a number of our machines here, but some of them do NOT have rdist, so rdist only solves part of our distribution problems. We have the sources in our 4.3 BSD tape, and I'm trying to find out the legality of moving that source to other, non-source-licensed machines. If this is not possible, is anyone aware of a public domain implementation or rdist that can be had? Dave
zjat02@apctrc.UUCP (Jon A. Tankersley) (02/01/88)
In article <4065@gorbash.Rosemount.COM> dave@gorbash.Rosemount.COM () writes: >We have the program "rdist" on a number of our machines here, but some of >them do NOT have rdist, so rdist only solves part of our distribution problems. >We have the sources in our 4.3 BSD tape, and I'm trying to find out the >legality of moving that source to other, non-source-licensed machines. If this >is not possible, is anyone aware of a public domain implementation or rdist >that can be had? > > Dave I second that. We have an Alliant connected to some Suns, and they have a different version of rdist (and a few other things) that is incompatible with the Sun version. This makes software distribution across the network a pain, some rdist, some rcp and rsh scripts. It would be nice to use one version on all systems. Alliant also doesn't have full SVID libraries. I had to write my own cut program for some SysAdmin scripts I use on the Suns. There may be a PD cut out there, but I didn't have time to search any net-archives for it. Coding for that was lots of fun, especially without any manuals.... Wonder if AT&T has a "look-alike" syndrome for hand written code. I sure hope not :-). -tank-
dave@gorbash.Rosemount.COM (Dave Marquardt) (02/04/88)
In article <4065@gorbash.Rosemount.COM> dave@gorbash.Rosemount.COM () writes: >We have the program "rdist" on a number of our machines here, but some of >them do NOT have rdist, so rdist only solves part of our distribution problems. >We have the sources in our 4.3 BSD tape, and I'm trying to find out the >legality of moving that source to other, non-source-licensed machines. If this >is not possible, is anyone aware of a public domain implementation or rdist >that can be had? Well, for those interested, Keith Bostic at UC Berkeley informed me that since "rdist" contains no AT&T code, we can, under our BSD license, move it to our other, non-source-licensed, machines. I didn't specifically ask about the situation where you run UNIX and don't have a source license, but would like to run a common version of rdist on all your systems. I suppose you still need to license "rdist" from Berkeley somehow, or else Berkeley needs to say it's okay to use it. Dave