[TUHS] BSD/OS

[Steve Nickolas]

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

> 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).

That's my take as well.

Caldera would assumedly have inherited these rights when they bought old 
SCO.  But as you said, they didn't have the copyright - and the copyright 
notice and the Third Clause on the Caldera license require a copyright 
attribution to them.

My stance is: While we can't be 100% sure on 32V, it's probably the 
_safest_ place to start, if one were to pinch from pre-S3 Unix.  If Xinuos 
or another claimant were to come at someone over it, it would put the 
"invalid copyright" theory to the test.

Anyway, copyright on the actual AT&T code is a rat's nest and I actually 
started trying to come up with an analog so as to avoid getting finked 
over the code.

-uso.