18 May
2006
18 May
'06
7:42 a.m.
Quoting John Cowan <cowan(a)ccil.org>:
Stuart, Jon scripsit:
I'm wondering if it wouldn't be possible to talk Novell into releasing the Unix
SysVr* source code under some form of BSD/MIT X license following the coming
evaporation of Societe Commerciel du Ondit - the SCOGroup Rumourmonging Machine.
Then get OSF1-"lite" released following that. Eating an elephant - one bite at
a time.
Wesley Parish
<snip>
Perhaps an OSF1-"lite", on par with
4.4BSD-Lite which had the
copyrighted code removed, would be possible to get released.
That was only possible because of the massive effort to rewrite all
things
AT&T out of the BSD source.
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