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--- events:free_licenses [2016/01/04 14:29] – [Drafting the License Terms] wkt
+++ events:free_licenses [2016/01/04 14:35] – [Postscript: Uncertainty] wkt
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 > This license permits hobbyists and enthusiasts to have access to the source code of these historic versions of UNIX, for personal and noncommercial use, and to share experiences and code updates with other licensees.
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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.
+> The license text may be found online at [[https://web.archive.org/web/19990428094858/http://www.sco.com/offers/ancient_unix.html|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]]).
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 However, given that the Unix Archive has now been available anonymously for well over a decade, it would be absolutely impossible to put the early Unix source code back into the genie's bottle.
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