Rick Moen said on Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:01:21PM -0700,: > > Therefore, the first recorded use of the BSD license that I > > see is Net/1 [June 1989], and the first use of the BSD license for the > > whole distribution (rather than just the TCP stack and libraries) is > > Net/2 [June 1991]. Prior to that, distribution was internal to > > existing Unix licensees, and kind of lived under the radar of official > > release and licensing. > > Good work! I somehow forgot that passage. So, the BSD licence dates to > sometime during Keith Bostic's work updating 4.3BSD-Tahoe (1986 on), and > went public in June 1989. Thanks.
"Free as in Freedom" by Sam Williams Chapter 9 discusses _both_. <quote> The arguments eventually took hold, although not in the way Stallman would have liked. In June, 1989, Berkeley separated its networking code from the rest of the AT&T-owned operating system and distributed it under a University of California license. </quote> The GPL was conceived in 1985, but v. 1.0 was published only in 1989, as has been pinted out. -- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ Mahesh T. Pai, LL.M., 'NANDINI', S. R. M. Road, Ernakulam, Cochin-682018, Kerala, India. http://in.geocities.com/paivakil +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3