In article by Greg Lehey:
[about if and how Caldera is enforcing the Ancient UNIX
http://www2.caldera.com/offers/ancient.html. Note also
that in fact they allow access to the code via
license described at http://www2.caldera.com/offers/ancient001/
without you first agreeing to the license...]
> That may be easier than you think. I'm copying Warren Toomey on
> this. Warren is (a) a FreeBSD user and (b) the person who negotiated
> these contracts in the first place. Warren, Peter is thinking of
> porting the 2BSD file system (not sure whether that's UFS or the
> original UNIX file system) to FreeBSD. As Terry observes, the current
> license doesn't allow that.
Firstly, call me crazy, but I thought the 2BSD filesystem layout was
essentially UFS, i.e i-nodes at the start, and therefore would be
pretty much the same as /sys/ufs/ufs in FreeBSD. I'll have to do a
compare of the source code and get back to you ....
I concur with Terry that as the license stands, you first have to prove
that a person has agreed to the license before you can give them access
to the source code. I would really like to get Caldera to at least
remove _this_ condition, even if they left the remaining conditions.
It would allow me to set up anonymous access to the old UNIX sources.
As for commercial use, that's a separate issue. I don't know how easy
it would be for us to talk Caldera into allowing that.
Which brings me to the question, does anybody know a good contact at
Caldera who can point us to the `right person' to negotiate on this.
I knew the guy at SCO who dealt with this, but not at Caldera.
> Note that Caldera is merely doing due diligence here; I don't think
> that they really care too much.
> Greg
See me comment about URLs at the top about this :)
I'll do a code comparison of FreeBSD /sys/ufs/ufs and 2.11BSD ufs
while we wait for contact with Caldera.
Cheers all,
Warren
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