[TUHS] Unix Archive now available anonymously

[TUHS] Unix Archive now available anonymously

[Warren Toomey]

All,
	With the new Caldera license, the Unix Archive is now available to
you anonymously. You can throw away those passwords now. The list of
Archive mirrors is at:

http://www.tuhs.org/archive_sites.html

and if you can become a mirror, please read

http://www.tuhs.org/mirroring.html

and send me some e-mail when you are ready to be added to the list.

I can tell you that up to now, 2,830 people obtained a SCO Ancient UNIX
license, of which 250 had to pay the US$100 to get it. I'll turn off the
CGI script which allows you to obtain a SCO license now ....

You know this means that Net/2, 4.xBSD and 2.11BSD are all freely available
now :)

Cheers,
	Warren

[TUHS] Unix Archive now available anonymously

[Perry E. Metzger]

Warren Toomey <wkt at minnie.tuhs.org> writes:
> You know this means that Net/2, 4.xBSD and 2.11BSD are all freely available
> now :)

Not quite. Although it is obvious that UCB would intend those files to
be freely available, they never had a UCB license on their diffs from
32V per se.

It is my understanding that Kirk McKusick is working on getting this
rectified by the UCB people shortly.


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Perry E. Metzger		perry at wasabisystems.com
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[pups] Re: [TUHS] Unix Archive now available anonymously

[Thor Lancelot Simon]

On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 06:12:38PM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Warren Toomey <wkt at minnie.tuhs.org> writes:
> > You know this means that Net/2, 4.xBSD and 2.11BSD are all freely available
> > now :)
> 
> Not quite. Although it is obvious that UCB would intend those files to
> be freely available, they never had a UCB license on their diffs from
> 32V per se.
> 
> It is my understanding that Kirk McKusick is working on getting this
> rectified by the UCB people shortly.

Oh, one other thing that springs to mind: I'm not sure Ultrix-32 is strictly 
OK to have in the archive, either; when I first tried to buy an Ultrix source
license (for Ultrix 3.1 at that time, and then again for Ultrix 4.0) I was
told that I needed not a 32V license, which I had, but a SVR2 license, which
was basically unobtainable at that time, before DEC would sell me an Ultrix
source distribution.  Did someone correct this misunderstanding before Ultrix
was placed in the archive?

Thor