31 Aug
2018
31 Aug
'18
3:34 a.m.
From: Warner Losh
The trouble, as I was given to understand when I
worked at Solbourne,
was that ... There were a number of third party bits and pieces in there
that could not be relicensed ... if there are other IP issues, not
limited ... It's that quagmire that efforts like this will run up
against.
Oh, we'll just ask Oracle for a license 'for all parts of SunOS for which they
have the ability to grant a licence'.
There's no way I'd want them to have to chase down all the corner cases,
that's just a way to guarantee it will never happen. I'd want to ask for the
bare minimum of time/effort on their part.
Anything above that, probably the SCCS stuff would be next on the priority
list, sounds like.
Noel