>For the record (and, this is my personal opinion based on my interpretations
>of the licenses in question, and not necessarily the opinion of NASA or
>of my employer, MRJ Technology Solutions, Inc.) ... I think that the
>"anonymous CVS" and similar methods of source distribution are actually
>pushing the limits or actually in violation of even the UCB license.  I
>think the reason they still exist is because no one has (yet) bothered to
>take legal action against parties which distribute sources with that method.
>
>...but I digress.

And what about the following text controls _how_ the source is distributed?

/*
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 * Regents of the University of California.
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 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
 * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
 *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
 *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
 * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
 *    must display the following acknowledgement:
 *	This product includes software developed by the University of
 *	California, Berkeley and its contributors.
 * 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors
 *    may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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 *
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 * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 * SUCH DAMAGE.
 */

>(4) VM system - we have UVM.  Chuck Cranor did a new VM system to
>    address the problems in the Mach VM system, rather than continuing
>    to tweak the Mach VM system... in many ways, this was the Right Thing,
>    and very typical of the NetBSD way of doing things .. "If it sucks,
>    start from scratch and do it right!"

"If it ain't broke, don't break it."

Mach VM may have had some problems, but it worked reliably. I can't say the
same for UVM so far, especially not on mac68k.

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