[TUHS] BSD/OS

Warren Toomey via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Mon Sep 2 09:36:13 AEST 2024


On 2/9/24 09:24, Steve Nickolas wrote:
>
> 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.
>
That I haven't heard of, but it is possible.

The Caldera license is somewhat problematic. My take on the situation is 
that old SCO had the rights to issue source code and binary licenses, 
even though they didn't actually have the copyright to the code (at the 
time Novell did). Old SCO had the right to create the US$100 "Ancient 
UNIX" license. And when old SCO sold the licensing rights to Caldera, 
Caldera had the right to grant the free license at 
https://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf.

Cheers, Warren



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