Facts please

[Mahesh T. Pai]

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. 

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