9 Apr
2025
9 Apr
'25
5:39 p.m.
On 4/9/25 10:10, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote:
segaloco via TUHS writes:
From Novell, since AT&T had already sold USL to Novell by then:
https://www.upi.com/amp/Archives/1994/03/17/Sun-Micro-pays-Novell-825-milli…
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith(a)oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris
To boil that down to a specific example, once
upon a time, Sun held
a license with AT&T to use, modify, and redistribute UNIX System
V. At the present moment, Oracle is the distributor of Solaris.
If there is a piece of licensing paperwork sitting in a filing
cabinet at Oracle somewhere, who would that paperwork say is the
original licensor of the product? Would that even matter in this
year of 2025?
At some point Sun bought out their license from AT&T.