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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: [TUHS] Source code abundance?
Date: Fri,  3 Mar 2017 15:06:12 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170303200612.6525F18C08C@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

    > From: Warner Losh

    > On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:

    >>> My understanding is that System V source of any sort is not legal to
    >>> distribute.

    >> surely there are big chunks of the opensolaris code that are not *very
    >> much* changed from the original System V code they're based on. Under
    >> what theory, then, was Sun the copyright holder and therefore able to
    >> release it under the CDDL?

    > Their paid-up perpetual license that granted them the right to do that?

I wonder, if they do indeed have such a license, if they have the rights to
distribute original SysV source under the CDDL? Or does that license only
apply to SysV code that they have modified? And if so, _how much_ does it have
to be modified, to qualify?

Maybe we can get them to distribute SysV under the CDDL... :-)

      Noel



             reply	other threads:[~2017-03-03 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-03 20:06 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2017-03-03 20:28 ` Clem Cole
2017-03-03 23:12   ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-03 23:56   ` Wesley Parish
2017-03-04  0:29     ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-04  1:01     ` Henry Bent
     [not found]       ` <CAH1jEzZPonQuq_4YJWN=cpaB9J8q2+TU-zRWx+Bg+29SUvfOVQ@mail.gmail.com>
2017-03-04  3:23         ` Nick Downing
2017-03-04 10:04   ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-04 16:28     ` Clem Cole
2017-03-04 16:34       ` Clem Cole
2017-03-05 19:15       ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-05 19:25         ` Warner Losh
2017-03-05 19:55           ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06  9:35             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-06  0:13         ` Josh Good
2017-03-05 15:44     ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-05 18:26       ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-05 18:55         ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-05 19:10           ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-05 21:36             ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-05 22:03               ` Mutiny 
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-03-08 12:26 Doug McIlroy
2017-03-04 15:39 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-04 16:02 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-04 17:53 ` Jacob Goense
2017-03-04 18:37   ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-04 18:38     ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-04 20:39   ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-04 21:05     ` Jacob Goense
2017-03-05 17:54 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-05 18:24   ` Mutiny 
2017-03-01 18:01 Arthur Krewat
2017-03-01 18:07 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-01 18:13 ` Henry Bent
2017-03-01 18:27   ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-01 19:18     ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-01 19:25       ` Henry Bent
2017-03-01 19:29         ` Steve Nickolas
2017-03-01 19:32           ` Henry Bent
2017-03-01 19:49           ` Random832
2017-03-01 19:51             ` Warner Losh
2017-03-01 20:18             ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-01 20:28           ` Clem Cole
2017-03-01 20:32             ` Warner Losh
2017-03-02 13:55             ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-03-02 14:15               ` Jim Capp
2017-03-02  1:22 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-02  6:50   ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-02 13:36     ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-04  3:29 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-04 12:51   ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-06 15:33 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-03-06 15:57   ` ron minnich
2017-03-06 16:20     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-03-06 22:52       ` Clem Cole
2017-03-07  6:52         ` Angelo Papenhoff
2017-03-07 13:25           ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 16:21     ` Dan Cross
2017-03-06 16:45       ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-06 20:50         ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-07 15:07           ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-07 15:13             ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-07 15:28               ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-07 19:44                 ` Ron Natalie
2017-03-06 18:00       ` ron minnich
2017-03-06 18:22         ` Dan Cross
2017-03-06 19:24         ` Nemo
2017-03-06 16:48     ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 15:57   ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 22:29     ` ron minnich
2017-03-06 22:59       ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 23:31         ` Steve Johnson
2017-03-06 23:32           ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-06 23:44             ` Steve Johnson
2017-03-06 23:48               ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-06 23:53                 ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-07  0:42             ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-07  0:33           ` Random832
2017-03-07  0:50         ` Clem Cole
2017-03-06 16:19   ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-06 19:06     ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-03-06 20:32       ` ron minnich
2017-03-06 19:36     ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-06 20:17       ` Larry McVoy
2017-03-06 22:19         ` Warren Toomey

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