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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 09:11:37 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Diana <deichert@wrench.com>
Cc: Das Devaraj <das@netcom.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD UNIX?
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On Fri, Jan 16, 1998 at 07:41:47AM -0700, Diana wrote:
> Question, why was this posted to more than one group?

Good question.  I took -isp off my original reply.

> On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Das Devaraj wrote:
>
>> happened after the UNIX name was bought from AT&T by Novell (is
>> it public domain now?)
>
> Novell then re-sold to SCO.

It's not as simple as that.  It seems that the sources, the licencing
rights and the trademark went separate ways.  To quote:

  UNIX is a registered trademark of The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.,
  under control of The Open Group.  It's a complicated thing, but USL
  never actually gave or sold the trademark, they just allowed X/Open
  to allow third parties to use it as X/Open's discretion.

You should be able to find more information in the Open Group's web
pages, if you're interested.

Greg