[TUHS] BSD/OS

[Warren Toomey via TUHS]

On 2/9/24 00:49, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>
> Trade Secret is one of the big reasons there was a preliminary ruling 
> in the UCB/ATT lawsuit that 32V had lost its copyright protection. It 
> had been distributed outside of AT&T to a large degree without the 
> Trade Secret warning. It's why all the 4BSD releases are publicly 
> available now.
>
Absolutely true, but there was a bit more work needed than just the 
preliminary ruling. In parallel, the TUHS folk were petitioning old SCO 
(not TSG) to release the ancient Unixes under a BSD-style license: 
https://www.tuhs.org/PUPS/petition.html. Eventually old SCO agreed to a 
BSD-style hobbyist license which cost US$100: 
https://web.archive.org/web/20010603053221/http://www.sco.com/offers/ancient.html. 
Some details of the process are here: 
https://www.tuhs.org/PUPS/pstatus.html.

Then a while later, Caldera (who had bought the Unix licensing from old 
SCO) offered their $0 license: 
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf.

I want to give a shout out to Dion Johnson who was the driving force at 
old SCO that finally got them to agree to putting the ancient Unixes 
under a BSD-style license.

Cheers, Warren

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