Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 15:43:39 +0800 From: Greg Lehey <grog@freebsd.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: mikel king <mikel.king@ocsny.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble brewing over the UNIX thing again... Message-ID: <20030126074338.GB1606@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030124030130.GB61607@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <3E309AA0.3020705@ocsny.com> <20030124030130.GB61607@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Thursday, 23 January 2003 at 19:01:30 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 08:45:04PM -0500, mikel king wrote: > >> McBride also confirmed that the company has hired high-profile >> attorney David Boies and his legal firm to investigate whether >> Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and versions of BSD infringed on the Unix >> intellectual property it owned. > > This was already resolved in the early 90s when USL sued BSDi over > encumbered UNIX code in BSD, and the case was settled. You can read > more about this in the archives. > > Furthermore, last year someone from SCO explicitly gave FreeBSD > permission to publish the older code anyway. That's not quite correct. I'm offline now, so I can't check, but I believe that at http://www.lemis.com/grog/diary-jan2002.html#24 you'll find a link to the message and to the license. If it's not there, it's a day or two either side. Basically, the license said: > Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:03:37 -0800 > From: Dion Johnson <dionj@caldera.com> > To: wht@minnie.tuhs.org > Cc: dmr@bell-labs.com, ken@plan9.bell-labs.com, grog@lemis.com, > John Terpstra <jht@caldera.com>, drew@caldera.com, maddog@li.org, > evan@starnix.com, phatch@caldera.com, ransom@caldera.com > Subject: Liberal license for ancient UNIX sources > > Dear Warren, and friends, > > I'm happy to let you know that Caldera International has placed > the ancient UNIX releases (V1-7 and 32V) under a "BSD-style" license. > I've attached a PDF of the license letter hereto. Feel free to > propogate it as you see fit. Warren is Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org> Yes, Dion got the mail address wrong, but the other ones were correct :-) Warren led the fight for the release of the old sources. > I don't expect anything to come of this. It's generating lots of FUD, which is unfortunate. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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