Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 09:07:50 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Ruslan Shevchenko <Ruslan@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> Cc: Das Devaraj <das@netcom.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is FreeBSD UNIX? Message-ID: <19980117090750.07770@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <34BE2D83.36F7DA23@Shevchenko.kiev.ua>; from Ruslan Shevchenko on Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 05:38:44PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.3.89.9801151337.A21235-0100000@netcom18> <34BE2D83.36F7DA23@Shevchenko.kiev.ua>
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On Thu, Jan 15, 1998 at 05:38:44PM +0200, Ruslan Shevchenko wrote: > Das Devaraj wrote: > >> (This is _reluctantly_ sent to freeBSD-isp also, in case the >> commercial folks - ISPs - see it in a different light). >> >> Can I _legally_ claim that my box running FreeBSD is UNIX? >> Or should it phrased that the OS is a _UNIX clone_. Note that > > clone. UNIX is register trademark of X/Open.www.xopen.org As used in computing, a clone is a copy made to imitate the original. That definition doesn't fit FreeBSD. It's more like a disowned member of the family. >> this has nothing to do with the actual power of FreeBSD. What >> happened after the UNIX name was bought from AT?T by Novell (is >> it public domain now?) >> >> Also is there a minimum set of functionality that needs to be >> supported before something is considered UNIX or even a UNIX clone? >> Have heard terms like UNIX 95, X/Open branding etc. tossed around. >> > > http://www.xopen.org for references. > > Look at http://UNIX-systems.org for online single-unix specification. > > FreeBSD is not full compability with standart, (for example have no > uid_t and gid_t), Where did you get that idea from? They're both defined in /sys/sys/types.h (and thus in /usr/include/sys/types.h). Greg
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