4 Mar
2017
4 Mar
'17
2:06 a.m.
From: Warner Losh
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Random832
<random832(a)fastmail.com> wrote:
>> My understanding is that System V source of
any sort is not legal to
>> distribute.
> surely there are big chunks of the opensolaris
code that are not *very
> much* changed from the original System V code they're based on. Under
> what theory, then, was Sun the copyright holder and therefore able to
> release it under the CDDL?
Their paid-up perpetual license that granted them the
right to do that?
I wonder, if they do indeed have such a license, if they have the rights to
distribute original SysV source under the CDDL? Or does that license only
apply to SysV code that they have modified? And if so, _how much_ does it have
to be modified, to qualify?
Maybe we can get them to distribute SysV under the CDDL... :-)
Noel