[TUHS] BSD/OS

[Steve Nickolas]

On Mon, 2 Sep 2024, Warren Toomey via TUHS wrote:

> 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.

Am I confabulating an incident where TSG's people were trying to claim 
that "a group of hackers called Caldera International" were behind the 
license and that it never happened (despite reality) ?  I could swear I 
recall that happening but I can't find any evidence.

-uso.