Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:46:40 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: wkt@tuhs.org Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Caldera and the Ancient UNIX license Message-ID: <20011217104640.A14500@monorchid.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200112160618.fBG6IcK23973@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <20011216115556.A62493@monorchid.lemis.com> <200112160618.fBG6IcK23973@minnie.tuhs.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sunday, 16 December 2001 at 17:18:37 +1100, Warren Toomey wrote: > In article by Greg Lehey: > [about if and how Caldera is enforcing the Ancient UNIX > http://www2.caldera.com/offers/ancient.html. Note also > that in fact they allow access to the code via > license described at http://www2.caldera.com/offers/ancient001/ > without you first agreeing to the license...] > >> That may be easier than you think. I'm copying Warren Toomey on >> this. Warren is (a) a FreeBSD user and (b) the person who negotiated >> these contracts in the first place. Warren, Peter is thinking of >> porting the 2BSD file system (not sure whether that's UFS or the >> original UNIX file system) to FreeBSD. As Terry observes, the current >> license doesn't allow that. > > Firstly, call me crazy, but I thought the 2BSD filesystem layout was > essentially UFS, i.e i-nodes at the start, and therefore would be > pretty much the same as /sys/ufs/ufs in FreeBSD. I'll have to do a > compare of the source code and get back to you .... One of the things I said before you came in was that that depends on the value of 2. 2.0BSD certainly didn't have ffs. > Which brings me to the question, does anybody know a good contact at > Caldera who can point us to the `right person' to negotiate on this. > I knew the guy at SCO who dealt with this, but not at Caldera. Hmm, I thought you would know. Have you asked Dion? 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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20011217104640.A14500>