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

[Alan Coopersmith via TUHS]

On 4/9/25 10:10, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote:
> 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.

 From Novell, since AT&T had already sold USL to Novell by then:

https://www.upi.com/amp/Archives/1994/03/17/Sun-Micro-pays-Novell-825-million-to-end-license-deal/7075763880400/

-- 
         -Alan Coopersmith-                 alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
          Oracle Solaris Engineering - https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris