[TUHS] Legality of porting ancient Unix.

[Bill Cunningham]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Duncan Anderson" <duncangareth at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Legality of porting ancient Unix.


> Hellwig.Geisse at 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

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Bill