11 Oct
2005
11 Oct
'05
6:17 a.m.
There has been a lot of talk about ancient unix
lately. I do know there are quite a few ports for the
ancient unix but the main question is it legal? It is
possible to port and distribute the port without the
warth of the company that owns the IP?
Regards,
John Chung
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11 Oct
11 Oct
6:32 a.m.
On Monday, 10 October 2005 at 23:17:30 -0700, John Chung wrote:
There has been a lot of talk about ancient unix
lately. I do know there are quite a few ports for the
ancient unix but the main question is it legal? It is
possible to port and distribute the port without the
warth of the company that owns the IP?
Yes, it's legal. Our good friends Caldera (now known as SCO) released
Ancient UNIX under a BSD-style license a few years back. See
http://www.lemis.com/grog/UNIX/ for further details.
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6:38 a.m.
Hi John,
On 11-Oct-2005 John Chung wrote:
There has been a lot of talk about ancient unix
lately. I do know there are quite a few ports for the
ancient unix but the main question is it legal? It is
possible to port and distribute the port without the
warth of the company that owns the IP?
Regards,
John Chung
it is legal to use, modify, and distribute code
based on UNIX Versions 1..7 and 32V, to the best
of my knowledge; see
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf
Regards,
Hellwig Geisse
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12:35 p.m.
Hellwig.Geisse(a)mni.fh-giessen.de wrote:
Hi John,
On 11-Oct-2005 John Chung wrote:
Does anyone know where and how one obtains the "ancient unix" sources,
particularly 32V?
Who does one speak to?
regards
Duncan
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There has been a lot of talk about ancient unix
lately. I do know there are quite a few ports for the
ancient unix but the main question is it legal? It is
possible to port and distribute the port without the
warth of the company that owns the IP?
Regards,
John Chung
it is legal to use, modify, and distribute code
based on UNIX Versions 1..7 and 32V, to the best
of my knowledge; see
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf
Regards,
Hellwig Geisse
2:18 p.m.
Hi Duncan,
On 11-Oct-2005 Duncan Anderson wrote:
Does anyone know where and how one obtains the
"ancient unix" sources,
particularly 32V?
Who does one speak to?
regards
Duncan
the best source I know of is
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/
(not very surprising, I guess).
In subdirectory VAX/Distributions/32V
you find the file 32v_usr.tar.gz.
Unpack this file, then go to the
subdirectory /usr/src/sys.
Regards,
Hellwig
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2:30 p.m.
Hellwig.Geisse(a)mni.fh-giessen.de wrote:
Hi Duncan,
On 11-Oct-2005 Duncan Anderson wrote:
Thanks.
I should have checked. The last time I looked, probably 2 years ago, I
don't think it was there.
regards
Duncan
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Does anyone know where and how one obtains the
"ancient unix" sources,
particularly 32V?
Who does one speak to?
regards
Duncan
the best source I know of is
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/
(not very surprising, I guess).
In subdirectory VAX/Distributions/32V
you find the file 32v_usr.tar.gz.
Unpack this file, then go to the
subdirectory /usr/src/sys.
Regards,
Hellwig
7:46 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duncan Anderson" <duncangareth(a)yahoo.co.uk>
To: <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 10:30 AM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Legality of porting ancient Unix.
Hellwig.Geisse(a)mni.fh-giessen.de wrote:
>Hi Duncan,
>
>On 11-Oct-2005 Duncan Anderson wrote:
>
>
>>Does anyone know where and how one obtains the "ancient unix" sources,
>>particularly 32V?
>>
>>Who does one speak to?
>>
>>regards
>>Duncan
Well Bell owned the old UNIXs. Ask Dennis or Ken. They probably know a
lot about that. Currently the Open Group ownes the UNIX trademark.
Bill
7:48 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duncan Anderson" <duncangareth(a)yahoo.co.uk>
To: <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Legality of porting ancient Unix.
Hellwig.Geisse(a)mni.fh-giessen.de wrote:
>Hi John,
>
>On 11-Oct-2005 John Chung wrote:
>
>
>>There has been a lot of talk about ancient unix
>>lately. I do know there are quite a few ports for the
>>ancient unix but the main question is it legal? It is
>>possible to port and distribute the port without the
>>warth of the company that owns the IP?
>>
>>Regards,
>>John Chung
>>
>>
>
>it is legal to use, modify, and distribute code
>based on UNIX Versions 1..7 and 32V, to the best
>of my knowledge; see
>http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf
>
>Regards,
>Hellwig Geisse
Try The Open Group.
Bill
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