From: "Ron Natalie" <ron@ronnatalie.com>
To: "Tautological Eunuch Horticultural Scythians" <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Were any of the commercial unixes source-available?
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 10:42:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <emeb8aaf51-e8f6-4d72-a007-733e64e7e5a2@08efa2db.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b98efc48-487e-4af2-8bb1-e96cba99d693@app.fastmail.com>
Note that most UNIX was protected by Trade Secret rather than copyright
so there’s no statutory expiration date.
We were contractors for IBM so we had XENIX and AIX sources in our
facility under NDAs, so I don’t believe IBM dealt with it other than
OCO.
I did have a license for the source code for Interactive Systems IS/1
but that was a fairly straight forward System V kernel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-03 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-03 5:19 [TUHS] " Joseph Holsten
2023-09-03 10:42 ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2023-09-03 15:48 ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2023-09-03 11:25 ` Andrew Warkentin
2023-09-03 12:40 ` Marc Donner
2023-09-03 15:09 ` Andy Wallis
2023-09-03 15:59 ` Warner Losh
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