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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1998 12:36:29 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au, PDP Unix Preservation <pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Subject: Re: Extending the cheap SCO src license
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In-Reply-To: <199808030251.MAA13502@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au>; from Warren Toomey on Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 12:51:22PM +1000
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On Monday,  3 August 1998 at 12:51:22 +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
> In article by Greg Lehey:
>> OK.  The current SCO license is limited specifically to 16 bit
>> systems.  We'd like to get, say, System V as well.
>
> After negotiating with SCO, I can safely say that they won't make System V
> cheaply available for any system, yet. Heck, they wouldn't even let us have
> the crippled System V for the PDP-11.

Yet.  What did the situation look like for the Seventh Edition 5 years
ago?

> You might be lucky to get System III added to the source license,
> and separate binary-only licenses for certain System V
> systems. That's another battle, tho.

Sure.  I was just saying we shouldn't accept the status quo, not that
we should go tilting at windmills.

Greg
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