tower@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (01/28/89)
1) I will be hosting a GNU (GNU's Not Unix) BOF at the San Diego Usenix. The BOF is scheduled for 8:30 pm Tuesday, 31 Jan 89, but double check the BOF Board near the Registration area at USENIX. The goals are to meet past, present and future GNU contributors; and to answer questions about the project and the Free Software Foundation. 2) Since Brian Kantor is providing a Sun 2 for copying tapes, there will be a set of the three FSF tapes for people to copy. Copy them at your risk and on your media. The standard FSF/GNU NO Warranty Policy applies (see the file COPYING that exists in each GNU distribution). People are encouraged to make a donation, either via myself, (if they can find me ;-) or to the FSF office (address in header). 3) FSF is including the freed files from the 4.3BSD-tahoe distribution on our Compiler (a.k.a. Beta) tape. These are the files that are marked by Berkeley as not containing any AT&T code. They are in the same directory format as they were in the 4.3BSD-tahoe distribution, which was made earlier this year. There are over 1,300 separate files. Many of the directories are not complete enough to actually build the relevant software. Note that the 4.3BSD networking code release just announced by Berkeley is not entirely included. It is not possible to build a complete running operating system from these files. FSF obtained these files from uunet.uu.net with the assistance of Rick Adams and the UUNET staff. Dan Lanciani <ddl@harvard.harvard.edu> has separately made available a 4.3tahoe source tree containing only those files marked as freely distributable for anonymous ftp from husc6.harvard.edu in pub/tahoe. Future release from Berkeley should contain even more freed source. We plan to update our tapes to include them. Some of the software may eventually become part of GNU, but those decisions are in the future. Note that the freed Berkeley source code is *not* public-domain. However, as it contains no code licensed by AT&T or others, it is owned by the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley. It is provided as-is, without any warranty, for any purpose. It may be used, modified or redistributed in source or binary forms, as long as due credit is given to the University and the University copyright notices are retained. No previous license, either AT&T or Berkeley is required. Information on how to order the tape is available from: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu Any bugs in this software, that aren't due to the missing non-freed files, can be reported to the USENET newsgroup comp.bugs.4bsd. enjoy -len