From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 23 19:49:38 2003 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 AB0D037B401 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:49:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ms3.quadtelecom.com (ms3.quadtelecom.com [66.45.116.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8551043EB2 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:49:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from htabak@quadtelecom.com) Received: (qmail 99491 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2003 03:49:33 -0000 Received: from anna1.quadtelecom.com (HELO quadtelecom.com) (192.168.1.28) by ms1.quadtelecom.com with SMTP; 24 Jan 2003 03:49:33 -0000 Message-ID: <3E30B7AA.7000008@quadtelecom.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 22:48:58 -0500 From: Harry Tabak Organization: Quad Telecom, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20021120 Netscape/7.01 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Cc: Terry Lambert , "Gary W. Swearingen" Subject: Re: Lawyers to be sicked on *BSD? References: <0gvg0gn1o4.g0g@localhost.localdomain> <3E2F3BE6.A8FEEFA5@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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 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