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The minutiae of the dialogue on the license terms (before the first draft) between myself and SCO can be found in these e-mails: | The minutiae of the dialogue on the license terms (before the first draft) between myself and SCO can be found in these e-mails: | ||
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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. | > 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 [[https:// | + | > The license text may be found online at www.sco.com/ |
Dion felt that, even though this hadn't been officially blessed by legal, it was time to make it happen: "I suspect the legal/ | Dion felt that, even though this hadn't been officially blessed by legal, it was time to make it happen: "I suspect the legal/ | ||
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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:// | 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:// | ||
- | ===== Then: Free Unix Source Licenses ===== | + | //(incomplete, more to come!)// |
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- | On the [[http://minnie.tuhs.org/ | + | |
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- | SCO now provided a [[https:// | + | |
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- | By March 2001, over 1,800 people had either bough the US$100 Unix source license or had obtained the free Unix source license (e-mail to David Eyes). At this stage, SCO were in the process of selling the Unix business over to Caldera. I had asked David: " | + | |
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- | ===== Finally: BSD-Style Unix Source Licenses ===== | + | |
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- | Once the Unix business had been sold to Caldera, there were more internal changes, and in January 2002 I received this [[http:// | + | |
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- | > I'm happy to let you know that Caldera International has placed the ancient UNIX releases (V1-7 and 32V) under a " | + | |
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- | > Many thanks to Warren Toomey, of PUPS, and to Caldera' | + | |
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- | Wow! We had gone from no licenses to binary-only licenses, to paid then free licenses, and now BSD-style licenses. I could finally make the [[http:// | + | |
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- | ===== Postscript: Uncertainty ===== | + | |
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- | The history from this point turns somewhat sour, as Caldera became the SCO Group (TSG, aka "New SCO") and began [[https://en.wikipedia.org/ | + | |
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- | Near the end of this saga, Judge Kimball, who presided over the SCO v. Novell case, ruled that Novell, not the SCO Group, is the rightful owner of the copyrights covering the Unix operating system. (// | + | |
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- | As Novell did not issue any of the above licenses, it may mean that they are technically invalid: old SCO, Caldera and new SCO only had the right to sub-license the Unix source code. This leaves the legal status of these licenses in a very grey area. | + | |
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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' | + | |
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