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From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] Legality of porting ancient Unix.
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 16:02:27 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051011063227.GB49168@wantadilla.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051011061730.93702.qmail@web30303.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

On Monday, 10 October 2005 at 23:17:30 -0700, John Chung wrote:
> There has been a lot of talk about ancient unix
> lately. I do know there are quite a few ports for the
> ancient unix but the main question is it legal? It is
> possible to port and distribute the port without the
> warth of the company that owns the IP?

Yes, it's legal.  Our good friends Caldera (now known as SCO) released
Ancient UNIX under a BSD-style license a few years back.  See
http://www.lemis.com/grog/UNIX/ for further details.

Greg
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-11  6:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.3.1128996000.90839.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2005-10-11  6:17 ` John Chung
2005-10-11  6:32   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
2005-10-11  6:38   ` Hellwig.Geisse
2005-10-11 12:35     ` Duncan Anderson
2005-10-11 14:18       ` Hellwig.Geisse
2005-10-11 14:30         ` Duncan Anderson
2005-10-11 19:46           ` Bill Cunningham
2005-10-11 19:48       ` Bill Cunningham
2005-10-11 14:26 Jose R Valverde
2005-10-11 14:32 ` Duncan Anderson
2005-10-11 21:23 [TUHS] Legality of porting ancient UNIX Jose R Valverde
2005-10-11 21:39 ` M. Warner Losh

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