[TUHS] Speaking of legality...

Warren Toomey wkt at tuhs.org
Wed Sep 5 13:48:05 AEST 2018


On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 09:39:40PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote:
>    I'm trying to recreate "a" source representation of the Venix for
>    Rainbow that I have. It's a v7 port, and I have all the .o's for it.
>    Most of the .o's compile, with the proper compiler, to the same code
>    that are in the .o's, at least judging from the .c file of the same
>    name in the TUHS archive.
>    The question is, what are the legal ramifications of publishing my
>    reconstruction?

Good question. IANAL of course. Obviously, it's a port of V7 and the
vanilla V7 is now under a free license. So I would guess that you only
have to worry about the files in Venix which are different: drivers etc.

Cheers, Warren



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