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From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey)
Subject: [TUHS] Copyright notices in Edition 5, removed in Edition 6
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:08:46 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031224060846.GA40195@minnie.tuhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031224060536.GA599@upstairs.Domain>

On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 01:05:36AM -0500, Larry J. Blunk wrote:
>  In case you haven't guessed, I'm thinking about the various include
> files in the Linux kernel that SCO has claimed infringes on their
> copyrights.  Many of the defines and comments seem to have originated
> in Unix Edition 7 and earlier. For example,
> 
> errno.h - http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/Nsys/sys/nsys/user.h.html
>  and  http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V5/usr/source/s4/errlst.c.html

which are all under a BSD license provided by Caldera, see
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf

So technically, yes someone owns the copyright on these files, but
they permit the content of the files to be placed in other programs
or kernels.

	Warren


  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-24  6:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-24  5:25 Larry J. Blunk
2003-12-24  5:31 ` M. Warner Losh
2003-12-24  6:05   ` Larry J. Blunk
2003-12-24  6:08     ` Warren Toomey [this message]
2003-12-24 15:41       ` M. Warner Losh
2003-12-24  8:17 Norman Wilson
2003-12-24  9:09 ` Warren Toomey

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