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Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:19:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface User-Agent: Cyrus-JMAP/3.9.0-alpha0-221-gec32977366-fm-20230306.001-gec329773 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <984bc9a1-70ea-4032-be21-b99f8d40e897@app.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20230315115947.A0CC418C07E@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2023 14:18:30 -0700 From: "Seth Morabito" To: tuhs@tuhs.org Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID-Hash: FW3NJACG7KMQI64LAPON4UVTPXRHAGFC X-Message-ID-Hash: FW3NJACG7KMQI64LAPON4UVTPXRHAGFC X-MailFrom: web@loomcom.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: UNIX System V Release 2.2 gdts Vax-780 List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Wed, Mar 15, 2023, at 2:08 PM, Clem Cole wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 5:03=E2=80=AFPM Warren Toomey via TUHS wrote: >> I'm still worried about my legal butt :-( > Probably a good idea.=20 >>=20 >> But I'd be interested in the viewpoints of people here on the list. > The Ancient UNIX license does not release anything beyond V7 - as the = document you have on the site (https://www.tuhs.org/ancient.html) says: >=20 >> 1.9 SUCCESSOR OPERATING SYSTEM means a SCO software offering that is = (i) specifically designed for a 16-Bit computer, or (ii) the 32V version= , and (iii) specifically excludes UNIX System V and successor operating = systems. > SVR4 is by definition System V. Do we know with any certainty who currently owns the System V intellectu= al property? I think (probably) it's now the Canadian company OpenText, = who just bought Micro Focus in January, who absorbed the Attachmate Grou= p in 2014, who bought Novell in 2011, who gobbled up USL in 1992... what= a tangled web. I don't even know where one would begin trying to track = down someone to give permission to archive System V source code. -Seth --=20 Seth Morabito * Poulsbo, WA * https://loomcom.com/