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  1. Multics License Historical Background
  2. This edition of the Multics software materials and documentation is provided
  3. and donated to Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Group BULL including
  4. BULL HN Information Systems Inc. as a contribution to computer science knowledge.
  5. This donation is made also to give evidence of the common contributions of
  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell Laboratories, General Electric,
  7. Honeywell Information Systems Inc., Honeywell BULL Inc., Groupe BULL and BULL
  8. HN Information Systems Inc. to the development of this operating system. Multics
  9. development was initiated by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Project
  10. MAC (1963-1970), renamed the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial
  11. Intelligence in the mid 1970s, under the leadership of Professor Fernando
  12. Jose Corbato. Users consider that Multics provided the best software architecture
  13. for managing computer hardware properly and for executing programs. Many subsequent
  14. operating systems incorporated Multics principles. Multics was distributed
  15. in 1975 to 2000 by Group Bull in Europe, and in the U.S. by Bull HN Information
  16. Systems Inc., as successor in interest by change in name only to Honeywell
  17. Bull Inc. and Honeywell Information Systems Inc. . -----------------------------------------------------------
  18. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute these programs and their documentation
  19. for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the below
  20. copyright notice and historical background appear in all copies and that both
  21. the copyright notice and historical background and this permission notice
  22. appear in supporting documentation, and that the names of MIT, HIS, BULL or
  23. BULL HN not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution
  24. of the programs without specific prior written permission. Copyright 1972
  25. by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Honeywell Information Systems
  26. Inc.
  27. Copyright 2006 by BULL HN Information Systems Inc.
  28. Copyright 2006 by Bull SAS All Rights Reserved