[TUHS] Can Ancient Unix be relicensed?

Chris Hanson cmhanson at eschatologist.net
Thu Oct 17 13:57:07 AEST 2024


On Oct 16, 2024, at 4:34 PM, Anton Shepelev <anton.txt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> So it was not an arbitrary decision by Caldera to use the
> original BSD license?  Can they have used the modern three-
> clause version with equal ease?

It was almost certainly *not* an arbitrary decision, and it is reasonable to assume that Caldera’s lawyers were quite aware of the variety of Open Source software licenses in existence at the time they made this decision.

  -- Chris



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