1 Mar
2017
1 Mar
'17
8:49 p.m.
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017, at 14:29, Steve Nickolas wrote:
On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Henry Bent wrote:
I sometimes wonder how the legality of that worked (a recent complaint
someone made about BSD drivers being incorporated into Linux got me
thinking about it again) - 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?
My understanding is that System V source of any
sort is not legal to
distribute. I believe that source exists and has been archived for at
least some variants of SVR1, SVR2, SVR3, and SVR4.
Well, that's probably 95% true...the other 5% is Solaris. ;)