Re: A bit of BSD history question

[Sascha Wildner <saw@xxxxxxxxx>]

elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I know a bit about the BSD OS history, however Ive been wondering lately,
> what or who had made the initiative in the BSD community of developers to
> free and open the source? Any influences from GNU and R. Stallman or
> something like that?

BSD is older than GNU and R. Stallman's misconception of "free".

Like Steve already said, the chapter from Kirk McKusicks's book has some 
info. As does Peter Salus' series about UNIX history on groklaw (check 
chapter 7):

http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20051013231901859

Those are not all chapters (the series is still running, you have to 
search the groklaw a bit for chapters >24).

I'm not 100% sure but I also think that Kirk McKusick told something 
about the BSD license history in his interview on bsdtalk:

http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk018.mp3

Sascha

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