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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/9/24 00:49, Warner Losh wrote:<br>
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<div>Trade Secret is one of the big reasons there was a
preliminary ruling in the UCB/ATT lawsuit that 32V had lost
its copyright protection. It had been distributed outside of
AT&T to a large degree without the Trade Secret warning.
It's why all the 4BSD releases are publicly available now.</div>
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<p>Absolutely true, but there was a bit more work needed than just
the preliminary ruling. In parallel, the TUHS folk were
petitioning old SCO (not TSG) to release the ancient Unixes under
a BSD-style license: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.tuhs.org/PUPS/petition.html">https://www.tuhs.org/PUPS/petition.html</a>.
Eventually old SCO agreed to a BSD-style hobbyist license which
cost US$100:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010603053221/http://www.sco.com/offers/ancient.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20010603053221/http://www.sco.com/offers/ancient.html</a>.
Some details of the process are here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.tuhs.org/PUPS/pstatus.html">https://www.tuhs.org/PUPS/pstatus.html</a>.<br>
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<p>Then a while later, Caldera (who had bought the Unix licensing
from old SCO) offered their $0 license:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf">https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf</a>.</p>
<p>I want to give a shout out to Dion Johnson who was the driving
force at old SCO that finally got them to agree to putting the
ancient Unixes under a BSD-style license.</p>
<p>Cheers, Warren<br>
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