2 Sep
2024
2 Sep
'24
5:36 a.m.
On 2/9/24 09:24, Steve Nickolas wrote:
Am I confabulating an incident where TSG's people were trying to claim
that "a group of hackers called Caldera International" were behind the
license and that it never happened (despite reality) ? I could swear I
recall that happening but I can't find any evidence.
That I haven't heard of, but it is possible.
The Caldera license is somewhat problematic. My take on the situation is
that old SCO had the rights to issue source code and binary licenses,
even though they didn't actually have the copyright to the code (at the
time Novell did). Old SCO had the right to create the US$100 "Ancient
UNIX" license. And when old SCO sold the licensing rights to Caldera,
Caldera had the right to grant the free license at
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf.
Cheers, Warren