Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 10:41:49 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Dom Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> Cc: desar@club-internet.fr, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: UNIX license issues (was: Searching an "old" BSD stdio) Message-ID: <19990221104149.U93492@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199902202205.PAA18466@usr08.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sat, Feb 20, 1999 at 10:05:38PM %2B0000 References: <E10E936-000ANG-00@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> <199902202205.PAA18466@usr08.primenet.com>
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On Saturday, 20 February 1999 at 22:05:38 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: >> Doesn't Kirk McKusick sell a complete BSD sources set on CDROM? I'd >> check the web page, but it appears to be inaccessible to me at the >> moment. I seem to recall that he required you obtain some kind of a >> license from SCO first, though... > > The settlement agreement between UCB and USL, the terms of which > are not permitted to be disclosed, made the Net and Net/2 > distribution supposedly "illegal". No, it meant that you still required a license. > Since you can't revoke a license granted in perpetuity (which is why > Apple still has a valid license for the UCSD P system that they used > to implement the original "QuickDraw"), DEC has declined to remove > it from their gatekeeper.dec.com archive, as have hundreds of other > licensees (even some institutions with more money than Bill Gates). Having a license doesn't normally mean you can put it on an ftp site for all comers. > Net was BSD 4.2, and Net/2 was BSD 4.3. You're a long way out. 4.3BSD came out in 1986. Net/1 came after 4.3BSD Tahoe, in 1989. Net/2 came after 4.3BSD Reno, in 1991. > I believe Kirk sells the 4.4-Lite2 CDROMs. Walnut Creek sells the 4.4BSD-Lite 2 CD-ROMS. Kirk sells a 4 CD-ROM set titled ``The CSRG archives''. The first CD contains 1BSD, 2BSD, 3BSD and 4BSD up to 4.3BSD. The second CD contains the remaining 4.3BSD flavours and 4.4BSD-Lite 1. The third CD contains 4.4BSD and 4.4BSD Lite 2, and the fourth contains the SCCS files of the /usr/src hierarchy. They leave off just about where the FreeBSD repository starts. > If he sells others, it's only with proof of a Western Electric or > later UNIX source license, to keep himself out of hot water. Correct, you need a source license. The easiest way is to get the SCO license, which will cost you $100. See http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/PUPS/getlicense.html for further details. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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