Extending the cheap SCO src license
Greg Lehey
grog at lemis.com
Mon Aug 3 13:06:29 AEST 1998
On Monday, 3 August 1998 at 12:51:22 +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
> In article by Greg Lehey:
>> OK. The current SCO license is limited specifically to 16 bit
>> systems. We'd like to get, say, System V as well.
>
> After negotiating with SCO, I can safely say that they won't make System V
> cheaply available for any system, yet. Heck, they wouldn't even let us have
> the crippled System V for the PDP-11.
Yet. What did the situation look like for the Seventh Edition 5 years
ago?
> You might be lucky to get System III added to the source license,
> and separate binary-only licenses for certain System V
> systems. That's another battle, tho.
Sure. I was just saying we shouldn't accept the status quo, not that
we should go tilting at windmills.
Greg
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