From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: schily@schily.net (Joerg Schilling) Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:18:03 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] Source code abundance? In-Reply-To: <1488397758.2792772.897224368.281306C5@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <23bbfb06-2de6-a9e1-0786-3f46d17c1192@kilonet.net> <32fbfeec-a3eb-796b-c243-5c6af478ea04@kilonet.net> <1488397758.2792772.897224368.281306C5@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <58b72c7b.JmfbzrspCV5o22DC%schily@schily.net> Random832 wrote: > > Well, that's probably 95% true...the other 5% is Solaris. ;) > > I sometimes wonder how the legality of that worked (a recent complaint > someone made about BSD drivers being incorporated into Linux got me > thinking about it again) - 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? Files that have been written by Sun or AT&T are published under the CDDL. Files from BSD (and not imported from Sun to BSD) did keep their BSD license.... Note that the whole license analysys did take aprox. 5 years. Example: ./cmd/csh/sh.dir.c /* * Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. * Use is subject to license terms. */ /* Copyright (c) 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 AT&T */ /* All Rights Reserved */ /* * Copyright (c) 1980 Regents of the University of California. * All rights reserved. The Berkeley Software License Agreement * specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution. */ #pragma ident "%Z%%M% %I% %E% SMI" ... Jörg -- EMail:joerg at schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/