Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262116AbTFTA7Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:59:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262123AbTFTA7Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:59:25 -0400 Received: from 12-222-225-127.client.insightBB.com ([12.222.225.127]:21405 "EHLO dirac.s-z.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262116AbTFTA7Y (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:59:24 -0400 From: Neil Moore MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16114.24500.590079.152861@dirac.s-z.org> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:13:24 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Unix code in Linux In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.4 (patch 12) "Portable Code" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1420 Lines: 38 Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: > The source being online is possible because the V1 - V7 source was > put under a BSD-like license by Caldera in 2002. A copy of the license > is still at ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/Caldera-license.pdf > > (there's much more at ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/, including > V6, V7 and 2.11BSD source). > > So, in this particular case this doesn't seem to be a problem. The license to which you referred says, in part: Copyright(C) Caldera International Inc. 2001-2002. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: [. . .] Redistributions of source code and documentation must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. [. . .] The file in question in the Kernel does not include any Caldera copyright notice, and in fact claims that the copyright belongs to SGI. Isn't that a violation of Caldera's copyright? Of course, if SGI has an unlimited right to relicense Unix code as its own, it's not an issue. -- Neil Moore: neil@s-z.org, http://s-z.org/~neil/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/