2 Sep
2024
2 Sep
'24
5:24 a.m.
On Mon, 2 Sep 2024, Warren Toomey via TUHS wrote:
Absolutely true, but there was a bit more work needed
than just the
preliminary ruling. In parallel, the TUHS folk were petitioning old SCO (not
TSG) to release the ancient Unixes under a BSD-style license:
https://www.tuhs.org/PUPS/petition.html. Eventually old SCO agreed to a
BSD-style hobbyist license which cost US$100:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010603053221/http://www.sco.com/offers/ancien….
Some details of the process are here: https://www.tuhs.org/PUPS/pstatus.html.
Then a while later, Caldera (who had bought the Unix licensing from old SCO)
offered their $0 license: https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf.
I want to give a shout out to Dion Johnson who was the driving force at old
SCO that finally got them to agree to putting the ancient Unixes under a
BSD-style license.
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.
-uso.