Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 10:59:00 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Dion Johnson <dionj@caldera.com> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>, Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs? Message-ID: <20020130105900.N54159@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20020129155632.F15769@sco.com> References: <20020129155632.F15769@sco.com>
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On Tuesday, 29 January 2002 at 15:56:32 -0800, Dion Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:05:20AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:55:04 -0700, Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> wrote: >>> >>>>>> And, where have you heard that it's been relicensed? >>>>> >>>>> http://minnie.tuhs.org/PUPS/ >>>> >>>> There's also a link from Caldera's own site >>>> http://www.caldera.com/company/news/ >>> >>> Thanks. I'm going to wait and see what happens w/regards to the >>> talking heads on this, and if the consensus is that it's legal to >>> post, I'll upload the bits to freefall. >> >> It's legal. Here's the original message. I'm also copying Dion >> Johnson. Dion, as I'm sure you're aware, we took the FreeBSD 1.x >> sources offline because they were "tainted" with AT&T code. Now that >> 32V is free, there should be no further problem releasing them, right? > > Yes it is most certainly our intent to free up the ancient Unix > sources so that they can be used, essentially, for anything. > Caldera asks for some acknowledgement, and disclaims all the > usual stuff. > > I cant completely answer the question about your archives since I > have not examined them and I dont know what other taint may be > present. But as far as the ancient Unix, and the "AT&T source > license" requirement is concerned, I think this part of the > problem has gone away. Well, we restricted access to the repository only because of the USL lawsuit, so I'm pretty confident that there's nothing else in there which we know about. > Caldera really does want this to be a happy, open source party of > geek fun. We are not looking to trick anyone with secret legal > viruses hidden in the code, or dark incantations buried in the fine > print. ;-) Thanks :-) Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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