[TUHS] Speaking of legality...

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Thu Sep 6 05:17:22 AEST 2018


On Tue, Sep 4, 2018 at 11:48 PM Warren Toomey <wkt at tuhs.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> Right, but the AT&T parts you need to be sure to attribute them,

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