mjs@SAGE.CC.PURDUE.EDU (Michael J Spitzer) (11/30/89)
The November 27 _Unix Today!_ has an article on page 4 regarding Mach, reporting that DARPA has declared Mach 2.5 "now suitable for general distribution." The article states that Mach is no longer subject to export restrictions. So, I guess that this removes one of the hurdles that was keeping the FSF from using Mach. -mjs
raulmill@usc.edu (Raul Deluth Rockwell) (12/01/89)
In article <8911300925.AA08682@sage.cc.purdue.edu> mjs@SAGE.CC.PURDUE.EDU (Michael J Spitzer) writes: ;> The November 27 _Unix Today!_ has an article on page 4 regarding ;> Mach, reporting that DARPA has declared Mach 2.5 "now suitable for ;> general distribution." The article states that Mach is no longer ;> subject to export restrictions. ;> So, I guess that this removes one of the hurdles that was keeping ;> the FSF from using Mach. Maybe. You still need an AT&T Unix Source Code License ($100,000 for companies, ...) to get the source. [see article by ross@apollo.HP.COM in comp.os.mach, "Subject: mach sources (long)"] I don't think this is the kind of restriction that can go away without a lot of work. It has certainly been preventing me from investigating Mach in any depth. --
bpalmer@bbn.com (Brian Palmer) (12/01/89)
In article <RAULMILL.89Nov30104942@aludra.usc.edu> raulmill@usc.edu (Raul Deluth Rockwell) writes: >;> So, I guess that this removes one of the hurdles that was keeping >;> the FSF from using Mach. > >Maybe. > >You still need an AT&T Unix Source Code License ($100,000 for >companies, ...) to get the source. [see article by ross@apollo.HP.COM >in comp.os.mach, "Subject: mach sources (long)"] But the June GNU Bulletin said: We hope to use the MACH message passing kernel being developed at CMU. The current distributed version of MACH is not free because it contains code from BSD of AT&T origin. However, the MACH developers have been working to separate this code from the kernel and they now say that they have a first version of this running in alpha test. Once this is stable, the MACH kernel is supposed to become free. FSF what's the latest news?!!! Brian