From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 16 16:16:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from monorchid.lemis.com (monorchid.lemis.com [192.109.197.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBB3637B41A for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 16:16:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by monorchid.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3BAB8786E3; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:46:40 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:46:40 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: wkt@tuhs.org Cc: Terry Lambert , Peter Jeremy , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Caldera and the Ancient UNIX license Message-ID: <20011217104640.A14500@monorchid.lemis.com> References: <20011216115556.A62493@monorchid.lemis.com> <200112160618.fBG6IcK23973@minnie.tuhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200112160618.fBG6IcK23973@minnie.tuhs.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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