[TUHS] Status of, and licensing of the so called "Ancient UNIX" products

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at lemis.com
Thu Feb 27 08:44:58 AEST 2003


On Wednesday, 26 February 2003 at 15:50:06 -0500, Gregg C Levine wrote:
> Hello again from Gregg C Levine
> I know I asked this question early on, and I remember, and have the
> original answer filed someplace.... But that was about a year ago.
> Since then I had heard a rumor that the current Copyright Owner of the
> "Ancient UNIX" products had in fact re-released the products under the
> exact same license that both Minix, and BSD use.

That's not possible.  The licenses aren't the same.

> In fact they could called a freely releasable product. Can someone
> on this list confirm this?

Yes.  It went around on this list at the time.  I'll attach the
message again below.

Greg
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