My mistake. I didn't mean SysV as SysV came out in 1984, it was a parallel development to 4.x BSD.
As for SCO's ancient unix program, that came way later: AT&T -> Unix System Laboratories -> Novell -> Santa Cruz Operation So from FreeBSD's point of view, BSD does contain System 6, 7, and 32V code, however SCO freed these under the ancient unix program.. but the ancient unix program was late 1990's already. I was referring to the first leg of the above (the AT&T leg). My original contention was that although Unix was originally free (pre-1984) its freedom arose due to regulatory constraints on AT&T, and not because AT&T was being altruistic or was embracing open source. On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 2:38 PM, paul <[email protected]> wrote: .. > this article from the FreeBSD core team begs to disagree: > http://www.osnews.com/story/3415/Focus_on_FreeBSD_Interview_with_the_Core_Team/page8/ > > "There never was any System V code in any BSD. Ever. The IP claims > that USL made its 1992 suit were based on the inclusion of sixth and > seventh editions and 32V. While these were the forerunners to System V > and System III code bases, they are not specifically System V or > System III. Furthermore, SCO released, under its ancient unix program, > all sources that predated System III and System V to be freely > distributed under a BSD-like license. These specifically included 6th > edition, 7th edition and 32V." -- Orlando Andico +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
