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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 11:13:38 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: djenner@halcyon.com, Michael Sokolov <msokolov@blackwidow.SOML.CWRU.Edu>
Cc: pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au
Subject: Re: The Unix Society
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In-Reply-To: <35C51258.2C635E5A@halcyon.com>; from David C. Jenner on Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 06:28:56PM -0700
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On Sunday,  2 August 1998 at 18:28:56 -0700, David C. Jenner wrote:
> I think he has a point here:
>
>   Restrict it to whatever the Ancient Unix license from SCO
>   (and any equivalent licenses yet to emerge) covers.  In fact,
>   an objective could be to try to ADD more systems from vendors
>   (like Venix, even Xenix) who required the AT&T license.

That's rather conservative, isn't it?  If we had done that previously,
there would never now have been an SCO licence for 16 bit UNIX.  If we
do it now, there will never be a license for 32 bit UNIX.

Greg
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