[Groff] Re: Re: Liberal license for ancient UNIX sources

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

Here we go again.

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> Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 14:53:16 +1030
> From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <address@hidden>
> To: Larry McVoy <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: Liberal license for ancient UNIX sources
>
> On Sunday,  1 December 2002 at 18:10:32 -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
>>> Earlier this year it was changed to be a BSD-style license, so it's
>>> definitely OK.
>>
>> On top of that, Dennis pretty much gave me permission to take over the
>> maintainence of these docs.  He was a little cagey about it because of
>> all the legalities involved but I was left with the impression that if
>> the crap ever hit the fan he'd at least stand up and say that these it
>> was a good thing that the docs were living and that he knew I was doing
>> it.  While I'm not willing to do this as a BitMover thing, I am willing
>> to take on the risk personally.  I know some of the Caldera people and
>> I think they are quite reasonable folks so I am not that worried.
>
> Well, Dennis doesn't own the license, of course, but as I said, it's
> now out in the open.  I'm attaching the message that Dion Johnson sent
> out in January.  Unfortunately, he has left Caldera/SCO now, and
> there's nothing on their web site (well, I didn't find anything last
> time I went looking) to confirm this, but given the people he sent it
> to, I think it's pretty clear that we don't have to worry too much.
> As Ruslan observed, most of the docco from 4.4BSD is now in the
> FreeBSD source tree.  I don't think anybody's done anything about
> getting it up to date, though.
>
> Greg
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> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:03:37 -0800
> From: Dion Johnson <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>       John Terpstra <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>       address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Subject: Liberal license for ancient UNIX sources
>
> Dear Warren, and friends,
>
> I'm happy to let you know that Caldera International has placed
> the ancient UNIX releases (V1-7 and 32V) under a "BSD-style" license.
> I've attached a PDF of the license letter hereto.  Feel free to
> propogate it as you see fit.
>
> I apologize that this has taken so long.  We do not have a well
> regulated archive of these ancient releases, so we must depend
> upon you UNIX enthusiasts, historians, and original authors to
> help the community of interested parties figure out exactly what
> is available, where, and how.
>
> Many thanks to Warren Toomey, of PUPS, and to Caldera's Bill
> Broderick, director of licensing services here.  Both of these
> gentlemen were instrumental in making this happen.  And thanks
> to our CEO, Ransom Love, whose vision for Caldera International
> prescribes cooperation and mutual respect for the open source
> communities.
>
> Of course, there are thousands of other people who should be
> acknowledged.  I regret I do not have time or wisdom to make
> a list of them all, but maybe someone does, or has.
>
> Anyway, here it is.  Feel free to write to us if you want to
> understand more about how/why Caldera International has released
> this code, or you have any other comments that we should hear.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Dion L. Johnson II - address@hidden
> Product Manager and one of many open source enthusiasts in Caldera Intl.
>
> Paul Hatch - address@hidden
> Public Relations Manager at Caldera International
>
>

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