From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 6785 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2021 15:17:56 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 2 Apr 2021 15:17:56 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 7AA619CA4C; Sat, 3 Apr 2021 01:17:52 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABA949C641; Sat, 3 Apr 2021 01:16:53 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id E7BDE9C641; Sat, 3 Apr 2021 01:16:51 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 405BD9C63F for ; Sat, 3 Apr 2021 01:16:51 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 2371F35E1B7; Fri, 2 Apr 2021 08:16:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2021 08:16:50 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Steve Nickolas Message-ID: <20210402151650.GA8268@mcvoy.com> References: <20210401145025.GA1202@naleco.com> <202104020700.13270EDK018774@freefriends.org> <202104021026.132AQhs5014565@freefriends.org> <20210402140229.GD1202@naleco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Zombified SCO comes back from the dead, brings trial back to life against IBM X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 10:17:51AM -0400, Steve Nickolas wrote: > A license to use code copyrighted by Caldera is meaningless if the code is > NOT copyrighted by Caldera, but by Novell (as has been established in a > court of law). Sure, it's possible one could go for years or decades > without being sued, but with what I intended to do with the code, unless > there were an unclouded free/open license (anything from Toybox to MIT to > 4BSD to LGPL to GPL3, I don't really care) it would legally be like painting > a bullseye on myself. So I get that playing with v6 in an emulator is fun, it's a trip down memory lane. What I don't get is why on God's Green Earth you would contemplate building any sort of product on ancient Unix. > "It's out there" isn't good enough. SunOS 4 is "out there" - nobody in > their right mind would integrate that into a freely available OS distro > because Oracle would come down on them like a megaton of bricks! SunOS 4, though I love it more than most people, is ancient history and is basically under one big lock for SMP. It was a huge amount of work to get that code to scale in Solaris (they lifted the VM system and the hat layer from SunOS 4 to 5 and then went to work). So other than walking down memory lane, why would you want that code?