[TUHS] A repository with 44 years of Unix evolution gets the MSR '15 Best Data Showcase Award

[cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)]

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Clem Cole scripsit:

> Which begs a question - since Solaris was SVR4 based and was made freely
> available via OpenSolaris et al, does that not make SVR4 open?   I'm not a
> lawyer (nor play one on TV), but it does seem like that sets some sort of
> precedent.

The fact that a specific copy bears a specific license may affect the
license on later copies by a means such as the GPL, but can't possibly
affect earlier copies, which are still bound by the earlier grave and
perilous license.  So you can use any SVR4 bits that are still part of
OpenSolaris freely within the terms of the CDDL, but not so any other
SVR4 bits.

> > Scrubbing proprietary third-party code to make an open-source release
> > of any of these ancient versions, as had to be done for Solaris (and Java),
> 
> ​Interesting - how did they "scrub" SVR4 from it?   The whole idea was to
> take SVR4 and "enhance it" using the SVR4 API's.  ​

I wasn't speaking of SVR4, but other non-Sun cruft that accumulated
between SVR4 and Solaris 10.

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