How did The Wollongong Group sell/send out the Interdata/Harris Unix Level 6 binaries then? Or did they get some kind of special since they bought the rights from Wollongong University?
It was a special and a big mess and had a lot folks in AT&T legal concerned - particularly because at the time, they were being investigated by the US Justice Dept. But it was what forced the creation of the general V7 redistribution license (and the crappy terms associated with it). That was part of the solution - make sure anyone could get such a license - but like the original research >use<< licenses AT&T made it clear that were NOT marketing UNIX and it was NOT in the computer business. Each vendor was on his/her own.