[TUHS] Status of Net/2

[TUHS] Status of Net/2

[Warner Losh]

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What's the current status of net/2?

I ask because I have a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 CVS repo that I'd like to make
available. Some of the files in it are encumbered, though, and the
University of California has communicated that fact. But what does that
actually mean now that V7 has been released and that's what the files were
based on? Are they no longer encumbered?

Warner

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Re: [TUHS] Status of Net/2

[Clem Cole]

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At this point I believe that it is now clear.  It’s still based on V7 but
All of that is covered by the ancient system license/release of a few years
ago.

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 8:50 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

> What's the current status of net/2?
>
> I ask because I have a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 CVS repo that I'd like to make
> available. Some of the files in it are encumbered, though, and the
> University of California has communicated that fact. But what does that
> actually mean now that V7 has been released and that's what the files were
> based on? Are they no longer encumbered?
>
> Warner
>
> --
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Re: [TUHS] Status of Net/2

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

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On Friday, 15 May 2020 at 18:49:44 -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> What's the current status of net/2?
>
> I ask because I have a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 CVS repo that I'd like to make
> available. Some of the files in it are encumbered, though, and the
> University of California has communicated that fact. But what does that
> actually mean now that V7 has been released and that's what the files were
> based on? Are they no longer encumbered?

To the best of my knowledge, Net/2 would be covered by the license
granted by Caldera on 23 January 2002:

  Caldera International, Inc. hereby grants a fee free license that
  includes the rights use, modify and distribute this named source
  code, including creating derived binary products created from the
  source code. The source code for which Caldera International,
  Inc. grants rights are limited to the following UNIX Operating
  Systems that operate on the 16-Bit PDP-11 CPU and early versions of
  the 32-Bit UNIX Operating System, with specific exclusion of UNIX
  System III and UNIX System V and successor operating systems:

     32-bit 32V UNIX
     16 bit UNIX Versions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

I'm attaching the PDF of the license agreement, along with an email
from Dion Johnson to wkt (misspelt as wht) the following day.

It doesn't specifically address any particular operating system, but
it was my understanding that this would free all BSD versions.

Greg
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Dear Warren, and friends,

I'm happy to let you know that Caldera International has placed
the ancient UNIX releases (V1-7 and 32V) under a "BSD-style" license.
I've attached a PDF of the license letter hereto.  Feel free to 
propogate it as you see fit.

I apologize that this has taken so long.  We do not have a well
regulated archive of these ancient releases, so we must depend
upon you UNIX enthusiasts, historians, and original authors to
help the community of interested parties figure out exactly what
is available, where, and how.

Many thanks to Warren Toomey, of PUPS, and to Caldera's Bill
Broderick, director of licensing services here.  Both of these
gentlemen were instrumental in making this happen.  And thanks
to our CEO, Ransom Love, whose vision for Caldera International
prescribes cooperation and mutual respect for the open source
communities.

Of course, there are thousands of other people who should be
acknowledged.  I regret I do not have time or wisdom to make
a list of them all, but maybe someone does, or has.

Anyway, here it is.  Feel free to write to us if you want to
understand more about how/why Caldera International has released
this code, or you have any other comments that we should hear.

Sincerely,

Dion L. Johnson II - dionj@caldera.com
Product Manager and one of many open source enthusiasts in Caldera Intl.

Paul Hatch - phatch@caldera.com
Public Relations Manager at Caldera International



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Re: [TUHS] Status of Net/2

[Jeremy C. Reed]

> To the best of my knowledge, Net/2 would be covered by the license
> granted by Caldera on 23 January 2002:

Except rulings since then said they never had the right (as they never 
owned the rights).

###### from my slide notes ########

TITLE=Who owns ancient Unix?
IMAGE=images/netbsd-pcc-caldera-license-screenshot.png

Some background:

BULLET=Western Electric's patent department told the Bell Labs
developers to remove all copyright notices from all Unix files.

NOTE:They shipped code that did have a license agreement nevertheless.

BULLET=These 1970's distributions pre-dated the US copyright law
changes in 1989 (due to the Berne Convention) which made copyrights
automatic.

BULLET=Western Electric / BTL purposeful removal of copyrights may
have meant forfeiture of copyright.

Western Electric's patent department told the Bell Labs developers
to remove all copyright notices from all Unix files. They shipped
code that did have a license agreement nevertheless. These 1970's
distributions pre-dated the US copyright law changes in 1989 (due
to the Berne Convention) which made copyrights automatic. The 1970's
purposeful removal of copyrights may have meant forfeiture of
copyright.

BULLET=In 1984, AT&T did retroactively copyright some of their
ancient Unix code.

BULLET=They also mistakenly placed their copyright on code copyrighted
by the Regents of the University of California.

In 1984, AT&T did retroactively copyright some of their ancient
Unix code. They also placed their copyright on code copyrighted by
the Regents of the University of California. Here is an example:
https://github.com/att/uwin/blob/master/src/cmd/captoinfo/otermcap.c

BULLET=Unix System Laboratories (USL) was formed for Bell Labs
around 1989 for the responsibility for Unix development and Unix
licensing activities.

NOTE:It became a subsidiary of AT&T.

Unix System Laboratories (USL) was formed for Bell Labs around 1989
for the responsibility for Unix development and Unix licensing
activities.  It became a subsidiary of AT&T.

BULLET= In 1993, Novell purchases USL and its Unix assets (including
copyrights).

In 1993, Novell purchases USL and its Unix assets (including
copyrights).

NOTE: In regards to AT&T/Novell vs. UC/BSDI ...  BULLET=In 1993,
judge shared the opinion and again reaffirmed that USL "failed to
demonstrate a likelihood that it can successfully defend its
copyright in 32V"

# Salus told me (around 2011)  he was in the opinion (shared by
the folks at Cravath, Swain..., IBM's lawyers) that V1-7 and 32V
were covered by Judge Dickinson Debevoise's finding on 3 March 1993
(reaffirmed on 30 March 1993) that it was "unlikely" that Novell
could successfully maintain copyright to the early UNIX versions
or the BSD versions 2-4.4.

Also in 1993, Judge Dickinson Debevoise's shared the opinion and
again reaffirmed that USL "failed to demonstrate a likelihood that
it can successfully defend its copyright in 32V" (that is the
ancient Unix).
http://tech-insider.org/usl-v-bsdi-ucb/research/1993/0303.html
http://tech-insider.org/usl-v-bsdi-ucb/research/1993/0330.html

BULLET=In 1995, Novell  transfered some Unix rights to The SCO
Group. As part of their agreement, multiple times. it specifically
excluded copyrights.

BULLET=SCO believed they purchased the Unix copyrights.

BULLET= Novell contented it retained the copyrights ownership.

In 1995, Novell intended to sell its Unix business. It transfered
some Unix rights to The SCO Group. As part of their agreement,
multiple times. it specifically excluded copyrights. SCO believed
they purchased the Unix copyrights. Novell contented it retained
the copyrights onwership.
https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/08/08-4217.pdf

#############
TITLE=Who owns ancient Unix? (continued)
IMAGE=images/Caldera-license.png

BULLET=In 2001, SCO sold its Unix business, including its believed
ownership of Unix copyrights, to Caldera.

In 2001, SCO sold its Unix business, including its believed ownership
of Unix copyrights, to Caldera.

NOTE: SCO renamed itself to Tarantella

CITE: https://web.archive.org/web/20071001003614/http://sec.edgar-online.com/2001/05/16/0001012870-01-500891/Section7.asp

BULLET=In 2002, Caldera widely announced that the ancient Unix code
(through 32V) were copyright by Caldera and licensed under an open
source license.

NOTE: They (assuming they owned it) gave the 1970's code away to
the world.

In 2002, Caldera widely announced that the ancient Unix code (through
32V) were copyright by Caldera and licensed under an open source
license. They (assuming they owned it) gave the 1970's code away
to the world.  http://www.lemis.com/grog/UNIX/
http://www.lemis.com/grog/UNIX/ancient-source-all.pdf also at
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf

BULLET=In 2002, Caldera changed its name to SCO.

In 2002, Caldera changed its name to SCO.

NOTE:the ancient Unixes were widely distributed

In 2002 and soon later, the ancient Unixes were widely distributed
and reused, under the copyright and license from Caldera.  Some
examples are at
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/external/bsd/pcc/dist/pcc/cc/cc/cc.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/games/ching/ching/ching.sh?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/spell/spellprog/spellprog.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/deroff/deroff.c?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
Many many projects widely share and reuse this historical code,
such as http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/ The various code is mirrored
all over the internet.

Note this effectively put copyrights and licenses on unchanged code
that previously had no copyright and license.

BULLET=The new "SCO" attempted to say they owned Unix rights.

BULLET=Defendent's lawyers believed that it was unlikely that anyone
could could successfully maintain copyright to the early Unix
versions (based on 1993 opinion).

The new "SCO" attempted to say they owned Unix rights even though
they had given them away via open source licensing. They tried to
challenge IBM regarding this. IBM's lawyers believed that it was
unlikely that anyone could could successfully maintain copyright
to the early Unix versions.

BULLET=In 2003, Novell stated it did not transfer copyrights for
Unix System V to Caldera and communicated it would support the open
source (and Linux) communities implying it would not challenge use
of that Unix code.

NOTE:Probably because they knew earlier opinions indicated that
couldn't challenge it.

In 2003, Novell stated it did not transfer copyrights for Unix
System V to Caldera and communicated it would support the open
source (and Linux) communities implying it would not challenge use
of that Unix code.  (Probably because they knew earlier opinions
indicated that couldn't challenge it.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20030602195439/http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/05/pr03033.html

BULLET= In 2007, a district court concluded that Novell was the
owner of the Unix copyrights.

In 2007, a district court concluded that Novell was the owner of
the Unix copyrights.

BULLET= In 2009. a district court affirmed again that Novell was
the owner of the Unix copyrights.

In 2009. a district court affirmed again that Novell was the owner
of the Unix copyrights.

BULLET= In 2010, a jury confirmed Novell's ownership of Unix and
again Novell communicated its protection of the open source community
use of that Unix code.

In 2010, a jury confirmed Novell's ownership of Unix and again
communicated its protection of the open source community use of
that Unix code.
https://www.microfocus.com/about/press-room/article/2010/utah-jury-confirms-novell-has-ownership-of-unix-copyrights/

BULLET=In 2011, a district court again affirmed Novell's copyright
ownership.

In 2011, a district court again affirmed Novell's copyright ownership.
https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/10/10-4122.pdf

BULLET=In 2011, Novell is acquired by the Attachemate Group.  In
2011, Novell is acquired by the Attachemate Group.

BULLET=In 2014, Micro Focus acquires the Attachemate Group.

In 2014, Micro Focus acquires the Attachemate Group.

BULLET=Micro Focus's press-room website shares old 2010 news: "The
jury's decision confirmed Novell's ownership of the UNIX copyrights,
which SCO had asserted to own in its attack on Linux."

https://www.microfocus.com/about/press-room/article/2010/utah-jury-confirms-novell-has-ownership-of-unix-copyrights/

As individuals and organizations distribute the 1970's Unix code
they do based on the copyright and license of Caldera. But as you
can see later years, it was stated multiple times that really Novell
may be the owner of that code.

Here is the situation summarized again:

- No copyrights when copyright statements were required. (These
non-copyrighted files are widely available today.)

- Software was widely shipped and reused (This is easily seen
today.)

- Company that owned the rights to Unix couldn't really claim the
copyrights because they didn't exist. (And that company doesn't
really exist anymore. And even if they did they could never close
up something that was given away for free already by them.)

- Effectively with no copyright and their very wide distribution,
they are like public domain.

- The commercial Unixes are mostly rewrites or reimplementations
of some of the historical Unix code. While some of the old code
may exist there, it is very different. The last commercial Unix
systems Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX are being phased out and have no
interest in the 1970's Unix code.

- Maybe Micro Focus owns the copyrights for the later Unix code.
Micro Focus's purchased businesses had no recent interest in the
ancient Unix code in last 24 years. One of those businesses
explicitely communicated it would not pursue copyright litigation
over the historic Unix source code (probably because they couldn't
prove the old code was copyrighted).

As far as I know, Micro Focus doesn't sell the software nor licensing
for ancient Unix, but maybe newer Unix.
https://supportline.microfocus.com/licensing/licensinghome.aspx
https://supportline.microfocus.com/licensing/Unix1.asp
https://supportline.microfocus.com/licensing/unixdeployment.asp?prod=unix
https://community.microfocus.com/t5/Over-the-Back-Fence/Micro-Focus-s-stance-on-Ancient-UNIX-licensing/td-p/1946721

(Note again this code was open sourced because Caldera thought they
bought the ownership from Novell, which now is a part of Micro
Focus.)

(A couple years ago)
I got in contact with Stirling Adams, Associate General Counsel,
Head of IP at Micro Focus.  They will research it. I doubt they
know about it :)  (This was done because of a NetBSD license request 
regarding some of this licensed code.)

I'd like to get Micro Focus to provide an additional statement
somewhat similar to what Nokia did (but less restrictive) that it
will will not assert any copyright rights on the 1970's Research
Unix Editions.

I have a feeling if the can understand it, that this may be opening
up a can of worms. That is they won't like that caldera put their
copyright on it.

Basically I'd want Micro Focus just to acknowledge that it wasn't
copyrighted and they won't assert any rights. (But what are the
rules for EU in regards to making it public domain?)

On the side, I also asked them about the commercial Unix editions that 
they may own from the 1980's. It would be interesting to know their 
interests there too. (2 Apr 2018)

By the way, Nokia apparently owns the rights to the non-commercial
"research" versions of Unix in the 1980s.  They didn't open source
it fully, but allow non-commercial use.

http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Distributions/Research/Dan_Cross_v8/statement_regarding_Unix_3-7-17.pdf

Re: [TUHS] Status of Net/2

[Jason Stevens]

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Nobody ever said peep when I ‘mashed’ enough 386BSD and what was available from NetBSD 0.9 and the NetBSD 0.8 to make 0.8 work…  The closest I got is ‘why do you want that we have version 17!’ or whatever $HEAD is .  I guess in the same way I was more interested in preserving 386BSD 0.0, and again nobody ever told me to stop.

I guess in the same way nobody told me to stop making Mach 2.6 available, or even Darwin 0.3 for i386.

I wanted to take that IBM 4.4BSD and try to replace enough of 386BSD 0.1 pl32 to have something more akin to ‘real’ 4.4 BSD.  Although I have a bunch of things I need to wrap up before I take that on (people are actually looking for bug fixes for Quake II on MS-DOS of all things….).

I don’t think its exactly policed like 1984, although I think people are more excited about RIAA/MPAA than things like Unix.

(shrug)


From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey
Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2020 9:41 AM
To: Warner Losh
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Status of Net/2

On Friday, 15 May 2020 at 18:49:44 -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
> What's the current status of net/2?
>
> I ask because I have a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 CVS repo that I'd like to make
> available. Some of the files in it are encumbered, though, and the
> University of California has communicated that fact. But what does
that
> actually mean now that V7 has been released and that's what the files
were
> based on? Are they no longer encumbered?

To the best of my knowledge, Net/2 would be covered by the license
granted by Caldera on 23 January 2002:

  Caldera International, Inc. hereby grants a fee free license that
  includes the rights use, modify and distribute this named source
  code, including creating derived binary products created from the
  source code. The source code for which Caldera International,
  Inc. grants rights are limited to the following UNIX Operating
  Systems that operate on the 16-Bit PDP-11 CPU and early versions of
  the 32-Bit UNIX Operating System, with specific exclusion of UNIX
  System III and UNIX System V and successor operating systems:

     32-bit 32V UNIX
     16 bit UNIX Versions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

I'm attaching the PDF of the license agreement, along with an email
from Dion Johnson to wkt (misspelt as wht) the following day.

It doesn't specifically address any particular operating system, but
it was my understanding that this would free all BSD versions.

Greg
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Re: [TUHS] Status of Net/2

[Warner Losh]

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On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 7:33 PM Jason Stevens <
jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:

> Nobody ever said peep when I ‘mashed’ enough 386BSD and what was available
> from NetBSD 0.9 and the NetBSD 0.8 to make 0.8 work…  The closest I got is
> ‘why do you want that we have version 17!’ or whatever $HEAD is .  I guess
> in the same way I was more interested in preserving 386BSD 0.0, and again
> nobody ever told me to stop.
>
>
>
> I guess in the same way nobody told me to stop making Mach 2.6 available,
> or even Darwin 0.3 for i386.
>
>
>
> I wanted to take that IBM 4.4BSD and try to replace enough of 386BSD 0.1
> pl32 to have something more akin to ‘real’ 4.4 BSD.  Although I have a
> bunch of things I need to wrap up before I take that on (people are
> actually looking for bug fixes for Quake II on MS-DOS of all things….).
>
>
>
> I don’t think its exactly policed like 1984, although I think people are
> more excited about RIAA/MPAA than things like Unix.
>

Part of the problem too isn't so much who owns the copyrights, but whether
or not the copyrights for the
V7 and earlier actually exist and are valid. One of the reasons the BSD
suit was settled was at the time
the judge strongly telegraphed that there wasn't a valid copyright by
western union based on the copyright
law at its time of creation.... So even the question of who owns the unix
copyright might not be as simple
as all that... The stuff is so old, there's no money in removing any of the
ambiguity for the current copyright
holders (to the extent that it is valid), so we're left with a lot of
possibility, but no certainty. Though given the
Supreme Court's latest 'fair use' rulings, it wouldn't surprise me if were
it to wind up in court if that didn't
further weaken the answer to the point where it just doesn't matter what
the underlying details are, copying
and making a derived work would be OK. Though that's my own layman's best
guess...

Warner



> (shrug)
>
>
>
>
>
> *From: *Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
> *Sent: *Saturday, May 16, 2020 9:41 AM
> *To: *Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
> *Cc: *The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [TUHS] Status of Net/2
>
>
>
> On Friday, 15 May 2020 at 18:49:44 -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> > What's the current status of net/2?
>
> >
>
> > I ask because I have a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 CVS repo that I'd like to make
>
> > available. Some of the files in it are encumbered, though, and the
>
> > University of California has communicated that fact. But what does
>
> that
>
> > actually mean now that V7 has been released and that's what the files
>
> were
>
> > based on? Are they no longer encumbered?
>
>
>
> To the best of my knowledge, Net/2 would be covered by the license
>
> granted by Caldera on 23 January 2002:
>
>
>
>   Caldera International, Inc. hereby grants a fee free license that
>
>   includes the rights use, modify and distribute this named source
>
>   code, including creating derived binary products created from the
>
>   source code. The source code for which Caldera International,
>
>   Inc. grants rights are limited to the following UNIX Operating
>
>   Systems that operate on the 16-Bit PDP-11 CPU and early versions of
>
>   the 32-Bit UNIX Operating System, with specific exclusion of UNIX
>
>   System III and UNIX System V and successor operating systems:
>
>
>
>      32-bit 32V UNIX
>
>      16 bit UNIX Versions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
>
>
>
> I'm attaching the PDF of the license agreement, along with an email
>
> from Dion Johnson to wkt (misspelt as wht) the following day.
>
>
>
> It doesn't specifically address any particular operating system, but
>
> it was my understanding that this would free all BSD versions.
>
>
>
> Greg
>
> --
>
> Sent from my desktop computer.
>
> Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key.
>
> See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
>
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>
> reports problems, please read http://lemis.com/broken-MUA
>
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>
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>

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