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From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 13:08:53 -0600
Subject: [TUHS] Caldera ancient UNIX license question
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On Aug 11, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Tim Newsham wrote:

> does novell own all the rights to late edition research unix?

Yes.

However, the complicating factor here is, I think, that SYS V uses a lot of code from the later editions of Unix, so relicensing the newer research versions might cut into the license streams from them in some way.  At least that was reported at the time of the only through 7th edition licensing.

Warner