From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: michael_davidson@pacbell.net (Michael Davidson) Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 19:13:01 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] SCO sues IBM? References: <20030310012147.GB94647@wantadilla.lemis.com> Message-ID: <002501c2e6b2$f8b6ec60$ed8ca140@ca.caldera.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: UNIX Heritage Society Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 5:21 PM Subject: [TUHS] SCO sues IBM? > > Which brings me to the real point: a little over a year ago, we > received a message from Dion Johnson releasing Ancient UNIX under a > BSD licence. For those of you who have misplaced it, I'm attaching it > again. While none of us doubt that it is genuine, SCO has no record > of it on their web site, nor (as far as I know) do any of us have this > in signed form. In view of SCO's aggression, I think we should > contact them and ask them to at least put the statement somewhere on > their web site. > While I can't comment on the current legal issues, I was involved in the decision to release the "Ancient UNIX" source code under a BSD style license and I am not aware of anything having changed in that area. I will, however, ask for an "official" statement of SCO's current position on "Ancient UNIX" - I expect that this will take a few days but I should have an answer by the end of the week. Michael Davidson