I know after the whole SCO personal licenses and then Ransom Loves’s making 32v and all prior open was great but apparently it wasn’t his to give away. Or am I wrong?
Sigh ... Yes... Where did you hear this? On second thought, I really I don't want to know... Whomever is spreading that information is tad uninformed and really does understand what happened.
Simply put, the AT&T case made it clear, the technology has been published. The issue is closed. It is 'open' - free - 'libre.' It's all public information and has been and was required to be by the US Courts in the AT&T / USL vs UCB/BSDi law suit. It's really not an interesting argument at this point. The US courts made is clear, AT&T was required to make the barn doors open, and horses left the barn.
This is why >>Novell<< released the implementation (i.e. source code) and it was Novell's to make available - which again the US courts have already determined.
Clem