Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 22:48:58 -0500 From: Harry Tabak <htabak@quadtelecom.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@attbi.com> Subject: Re: Lawyers to be sicked on *BSD? Message-ID: <3E30B7AA.7000008@quadtelecom.com> References: <0gvg0gn1o4.g0g@localhost.localdomain> <3E2F3BE6.A8FEEFA5@mindspring.com>
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I wonder if the SCO Group has done its homework. *BSD and SVR* are hopelessly entangled. The original code for BSD came from AT&T, and AT&T/USL versions were at least 50% UCB developed. In 1994, UCB and USL settled a nasty lawsuit which resulted in an unencumbered 4.4 BSD-Lite Release. The settlment requires that certain files in BSD-Lite include a USL copyright notice and certain USL files to include UCB credits. See <http://www.daemon.org/bsd-releases/misc/USL-lawsuit>; for more info. I believe that all USL files in *BSD and Linux are derived from that unencumbered BSD-Lite release, and are therefore properly "licensed". Or have people gotten careless? I think that SCO is trying to make money on FUD. Harry Tabak Terry Lambert wrote: > "Gary W. Swearingen" wrote: > >>I found this via Slashdot "story", so .... >> >>The CEO of some company is being quoted as saying: >> >> "To us, it's not an issue of: Is Linux violating (SCO intellectual >> property)? It's an issue of: Is anybody violating it?" >> >>and >> >> "If you pull down (Mac) OS X you'll see a lot of copyright postings >> that point back to Unix Systems Laboratories, which is what we hold." > > > > They already settled this with BSDI and UCB back in the 1990's. > > Now it's Linux' turn. > > -- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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