11 Mar
2023
11 Mar
'23
3:44 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 4:24 PM Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
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.
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