From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey) Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 09:58:10 +1030 Subject: [TUHS] Microsoft, SCO, and a certain License In-Reply-To: <197818621475.20040229144830@ao.mine.nu> References: <200402292034.03414.wes.parish@paradise.net.nz> <197818621475.20040229144830@ao.mine.nu> Message-ID: <20040229232810.GI49757@wantadilla.lemis.com> On Sunday, 29 February 2004 at 14:48:30 +0000, Paul Ward wrote: > Wes ðu hal Wesley, > > On Sunday, February 29, 2004, 7:34:03 AM, ure freond feorran awrat: > > WP> I know the SCO topic's been done to death, and all, but I was thinking about > WP> the Microsoft purchase of a Unix license (apparently) for their MS SFU > WP> (Windows Services For Unix) which contrary to the plain meaning of the name, > WP> is essentially a Unix (apparently OpenBSD, according to rumour) box on top of > WP> the Windows kernel and Win32 API. > > WP> The question is, wouldn't that put Microsoft and the SCO Group in breach of > WP> the settlement between AT&T and Berkeley? If Win SFU _is_ OpenBSD, and > WP> Microsoft have bought a license to run it from the SCO Group of all people, > WP> isn't that in effect picking a fight with Theo de Raadt? > > Found in "ls": > Copyright (c) 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All > rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1996, 1998 Softway Systems Inc. > > $OpenBSD: strlen.c,v 1.3 1996/08/19 08:34:19 tholo Exp $ > $OpenBSD: strcpy.c,v 1.4 1996/08/19 08:34:14 tholo Exp $ > $OpenBSD: strncpy.c,v 1.2 1996/08/19 08:34:22 tholo Exp $ > $OpenBSD: strncmp.c,v 1.3 1996/08/19 08:34:21 tholo Exp $ > $OpenBSD: strlcpy.c,v 1.4 1999/05/01 18:56:41 millert Exp $ > $OpenBSD: fts.c,v 1.15 1998/03/19 00:30:01 millert Exp $ > $OpenBSD: strcmp.c,v 1.3 1996/08/19 08:34:12 tholo Exp $ > $OpenBSD: memset.c,v 1.2 1996/08/19 08:34:07 tholo Exp $ > $OpenBSD: strcat.c,v 1.4 1996/08/19 08:34:10 tholo Exp $ > $OpenBSD: memchr.c,v 1.2 1996/08/19 08:34:04 tholo Exp $ > > There are a few OpenBSD CVS tags in libc.a as well. Hmm. In that case, Microsoft *is* abusing the OpenBSD license by not stating clearly that the code is derived in part from OpenBSD. Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog at lemis.com for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available URL: