12 Nov
2003
12 Nov
'03
3:08 a.m.
A couple years ago, Sun released Solaris 8 source for free. The whole system is full of
SVisms, and AFAIK, the source remains free.
Maciek
----- Original Message -----
From: Aharon Robbins <arnold(a)skeeve.com>
Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 11:58 am
Subject: Re: Heritage X (was Re: [TUHS] Lauch Gui using remote xterm!!)
Date: Tue, 11
Nov 2003 21:13:16 +1300
From: Wesley Parish <wes.parish(a)paradise.net.nz>
Subject: Re: Heritage X (was Re: [TUHS] Lauch Gui using remote
xterm!!)> To:
tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
I've personally thought that Sun should release the source trees
of its old
BSD-based SunOS with the idea of getting back
onside with all the
Linux and
Unix people it pissed off by its
"buying" a "Unix" license from
SCO, the
Societe Commercial du On-Dit, the Commercial
Society of
Rumourmongers.
Don't hold your breath. Even SunOS 4.1.x had large chunks of System
V Release 3
code in it: all the STREAMS stuff and RFS worked in that
environment (not that
anyone ever used it). Also all of /usr/5bin, /usr/5lib etc.
Arnold
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17 Nov
4:05 p.m.
New subject: Heritage X (was Re: Lauch Gui using remote xterm!!)
* macbiesz wrote:
A couple years ago, Sun released Solaris 8 source for
free. The
whole system is full of SVisms, and AFAIK, the source remains free.
I think it depends what you mean by `free'. I forget the details but
though I'm sure you could fetch it, look at it, rebuild it & maybe
make changes which you did not redistribute, you almost certainly
could not, say, redistribute it, or take material from it and
redistribute that. You may also have needed to be a Solaris licensee
as well (not that this costs much or, often, anything).
So it really is one of these `definition of free' things - if you
define `free' as `not costing anything' then yes, it was/is free, but
if you define it in some sense that involves freedom to redistribute
or something like that then it wasn't free. I doubt
free-software-cult followers would have called it free, put it that
way!
Anyway, this is probably off-topic by now
--tim
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