20 Mar
2003
20 Mar
'03
3:27 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 10:38:03AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
IMHO Caldera/SCO could only release the AT&T part
of xBSD. To release xBSD completely the UCB would
have to do this formally...
Caveats: haven't Caldera/SCO pulled back this re-
lease (IIRC I saw something like that when I vi-
sited their web site; reason whatever "abuse").
Also these releases from them used to be for per-
sonal, education/research use and thus would re-
strict the scope of their release. At least this
was the case when you had still to apply in wri-
ting to SCO.
I guess UCB wouldn't like again to test the current
status quo at court...
...
On Wednesday, 19 March 2003 at 9:40:30 -0800, Steven
M. Schultz wrote:
...
But is 2BSD
free? That I don't know. It is more free than it was
a long time ago but
After Caldera released the Ancient UNIX license last January, 2BSD
must be free, unless I'm missing something. Does the
current state of the Caldera/SCO/whatever license override
any existing licenses? THAT I do not know.
My understanding (and I'm pretty sure it's correct) is that it
replaces the old AT&T license for the specified products, including
all AT&T precursors of [1-4]BSD. From the Caldera/SCO law suit, I conclude that those
old licenses are still valid. Caldera/SCO are the le-
gal owners today; i.e. the license holders.
I'm not aware that they created a new license, super-
seeding the old ones.
My opinion is that the xBSDs are still restricted (to
personal, educational/research type of use).
The first really unrestricted BSD would be 4.4BSD-lite.
NetBSD was indeed the first spin-off of this one...
But as all the precedent writers, I'm no lawyer too.
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