From: Warren Toomey <wkt@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au>
Message-Id: <199901050601.RAA11467@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au>
Subject: Contaminated srcs
In-Reply-To: <199901050557.VAA19580@moe.2bsd.com> from "Steven M. Schultz" at "Jan 4, 1999  9:57: 1 pm"
To: sms@moe.2bsd.com (Steven M. Schultz)
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 17:01:49 +1100 (EST)
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In article by Steven M. Schultz:
> 	A good case can be made that stuff ported from 4.4-Lite is not
> 	contaminated (because 4.4-Lite had the legal blessings of AT&T)
> 	but I was told at one time anything based on the Net-2 stuff could be
> 	(is?) contaminated.  Alas by the time 4.4-Lite came out the software
> 	had bloated so much that very little of it can be ported over.  I 
> 	grabbed a few ideas and pieces out of the kernel - that's where the 
> 	"sysctl" stuff in 2.11 came from for example.  But the mainline
> 	applications are GNU based (megabytes and megabytes of memory assumed).
> 	I'd like to see someone getting GCC to run natively on a PDP-11! <grin>
> 
> 	Steven

Just a thought: much of the stuff in 16-bit Minix was written by people
on Usenet and donated to Minix. The core stuff of course is owned by
Prentice-Hall, but there are some freely-available programs.

	Warren