20 Jun
2024
20 Jun
'24
1:35 a.m.
I have an original signed copy of:
V6 Mini Unix "Software-Univ 020173-020179-2" (Feb 1, 1980) Licensed to a single
CPU PDP 11/34 S# AG 00720
V7 Unix "software-Univ 020173-090178-7" (Feb 1, 1980) Licensed to a single CPU
PDP 11/34 S# AG 00720 (same machine)
UNIX/32V Version 1.0 "Software-UNIV 020173-090178-7 (Feb 1, 1980) Licensed to a
single CPU VAX 11/780 S# 780675580
A copy of a signed agreement for
V7 Unix "software-Univ 020173-120176-5" (March 1, 1977) Licensed to a single CPU
PDP 11/34 S# AG 00720 (same machine)
I also have various other agreement (SYS V (Version 2 and 3) and several software packages
(like troff)
Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: segaloco via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2024 2:11 PM
To: tuhs(a)tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Unix single-machine licensing (was Re: Re: ACM Software System Award
to Andrew S. Tanenbaum for MINIX)
On Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 at 9:00 AM, Al Kossow <aek(a)bitsavers.org> wrote:
On 6/19/24 8:47 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
I've got a stack of license specimens as well as a bit of correspondence between MIT
Lincoln Laboratory, Raytheon, and Western Electric discussing UNIX licenses for single
CPUs. The correspondence (circa 1980) concerns V7 licenses for a
PDP-11/44 (MIT LL) and PDP-11/45 (Raytheon). The license specimens are in two groups, one
set that has blanks and/or generic language describing "Licensed Software" and a
second set specifically issued for UNIX System III.
The licenses have document codes:
- Software-Corp.-020173-020182-2 - Software Agreement between AT&T and <Blank>
- Software-Customer CPU-052776-090180-2 - Customer CPU Agreement between <Blank> and
<Blank>
- Supp. Ag.-Time Sharing-020178-010180-2 - Supplemental Agreement (Time Sharing) between
Western Electric Company, Incorporated and <Blank>
- Supp. Ag.-Customer CPU-020178-010180-2 - Supplemental Agreement (Customer CPU) between
Western Electric Company, Incorporated and <Blank>
- Supp. Ag.-Cust. Spec.-020181-2 - Supplemental Agreement (Customer Software, Specified
Number of Users) between Western Electric Company, Incorporated and <Blank>
- Cont. CPU-060181-1 - Contractor CPU Agreement between <Blank> and <Blank>
- Sys. III-Corp.-110181-040182-2 - Software Agreement between AT&T and <Blank>
for UNIX System III
- Sys. III-Cust.-010182-041582-2 - Supplemental Agreement (Customer Provisions) between
AT&T and <Blank> for UNIX System III
Would scans of these documents help? The licenses at least should be fine as they're
specimen copies with no PII. Regarding the correspondence, there is one letter on DARPA
letterhead (from MIT LL to WECo), two on WECo letterhead (one back to MIT LL, the other to
Raytheon) and then one on AT&T letterhead responding generically to an uinquiry
regarding UNIX System III licensing. Does anyone foresee issues with scanning the
correspondence, or is that the sort of thing that might get me shipped off to some black
site?
- Matt G.
That's how I remember Otis Wilson explaining
it to us as commercial licensees at a licensing meeting in the early 1980s.
We had finally completed the PWB 3.0 license to replace the V7
commercial license (AT&T would rename this System III - but we knew
it as PWB
3.) during the negociations Summit had already moved on to the next version - PWB 4.0.
IMO: Otis was not ready to start that process again.
Is the really early history of Unix licensing documented anywhere?
The work on reviving a Plexus P20 prompted me to put up the history of
Onyx and Plexus at http://bitsavers.org/pdf/plexus/history and a long
time ago someone who worked at Fortune told me we can all thank Onyx
in 1980 for working out the single machine licensing with AT&T