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 > The license text may be found online at www.sco.com/offers, and the PUPS website.  A $100 fee is charged to offset cost of legal and administrative handling of the license.
+Dion felt that, even though this hadn't been officially blessed by legal, it was time to make it happen: "I suspect the legal/finance folks will holler foul when this hits them but hell that's their job. ;-)" (//ibid.//). By the 20th of March, SCO already had "about a dozen licenses here, all paid up and signed off." ([[http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Emails/dionj_wkt.html#19980320140932.37135@sco.com|e-mail from Dion]]).
+So, finally, source licenses for early Unix were available, although they were not free. This would never have been possible without such a steadfast and stalwart advocate as Dion Johnson. At the [[http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Emails/dionj_wkt.html#19980318161915.51127@sco.com|end of March]], Dion wrote: "The legal people are a little grumpy at me, but they also know my heart is pure and they sorta respect that. ... I am very proud of doing this and grateful for your help and the help of the other PUPS and other participants in the Unix heritage. ... I am known as a bit of a maverick, and customer advocate, so it's expected.  Every company needs a few people like me". I could not agree more!
+===== Processing the New Unix Source Licenses =====
+After that, it was a bit anticlimactic. People would purchase a Unix source license through SCO's website, Dion would e-mail me their name, I would provide access to the Unix Archive, and periodically Dion would [[http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Documentation/Emails/dionj_wkt.html#19980407105028.33236@sco.com|snail-mail me photocopies]] of their signed licenses.
 //(incomplete, more to come!)//