From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 16 7:16:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7CEF37B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 07:16:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from marvin.bsdng.org (24-159-234-52.jvl.wi.charter.com [24.159.234.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D99643EBE for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 07:16:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mkm@marvin.bsdng.org) Received: by marvin.bsdng.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 34EF5AC44; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:15:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 09:15:22 -0500 From: Kyle Martin To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix history Message-ID: <20021016141522.GA65657@marvin.bsdng.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200210162209.37061.imoore@picknowl.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200210162209.37061.imoore@picknowl.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:09:36PM +0930, Ian Moore wrote: > From: Ian Moore > To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Unix history > Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:09:36 +0930 > > Hi, > I was wondering if the commercial Unix variants are really unix 'clones' in > the same way that FBSD & Linux are, or do/did they contain AT&T code? > They often seem to be refered to as Unix, but I assume that (according the > laywers) they are not unix anymore than FBSD is. > If so, it's interesting that AT&T let so many companies copy their software! > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd/x45.html might clear things up for you. fwiw, the original AT&T UNIX versions are now open sourced under BSDL thanks to Kirk McKusick et al. -- Kyle Martin mkm@ieee.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message