[TUHS] Current Status of AT&T/USL Licensing?

[Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)]

segaloco via TUHS writes:

> To boil that down to a specific example, once upon a time, Sun held
> a license with AT&T to use, modify, and redistribute UNIX System
> V.  At the present moment, Oracle is the distributor of Solaris.
> If there is a piece of licensing paperwork sitting in a filing
> cabinet at Oracle somewhere, who would that paperwork say is the
> original licensor of the product?  Would that even matter in this
> year of 2025?

At some point Sun bought out their license from AT&T.  My guess is
it was pre-Solaris 9, as that buyout was what let them start offering
up Solaris 9 source code on an experimental basis, and then fully
unleashing it with the Solaris 10 release.

As Warren mentions, others might have done the same, but I
have no knowledge of any deals other than Sun's.

--lyndon