From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 12:51:29 -0700 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: On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:49 PM, Random832 wrote: > On Wed, Mar 1, 2017, at 14:29, Steve Nickolas wrote: >> On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Henry Bent wrote: >> >> > My understanding is that System V source of any sort is not legal to >> > distribute. I believe that source exists and has been archived for at >> > least some variants of SVR1, SVR2, SVR3, and SVR4. >> >> 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? Their paid-up perpetual license that granted them the right to do that? Warner