Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA19237 for pups-liszt; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:08:01 +1100 (EST) Received: from shelbyville.oai.com (IDENT:root@shelbyville.alcita.com [204.57.59.144] (may be forged)) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA19231 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:07:52 +1100 (EST) Received: (from mirian@localhost) by shelbyville.oai.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA03298; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 20:00:59 -0500 From: Mirian Crzig Lennox To: UNIX Heritage Society Subject: Re: Sun release source code for Solaris 8 References: <20000127110321.I53307@freebie.lemis.com> Original-Sender: lennox@alcita.com Organization: Alcita Technologies, Inc. Date: 26 Jan 2000 20:00:57 -0500 In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of "Thu, 27 Jan 2000 11:03:21 +1030" Message-ID: Lines: 13 Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk Greg Lehey writes: > > The conditions look rather like the SCO ancient UNIX licences, but > it's *cheaper* ($75, which includes deliverables from Sun). Warren, > is this ammunition to lobby SCO to drop the prices of Ancient UNIX > licenses? After looking at the site, it seems as though Sun is trying to prevent licence holders from sharing code with other licence holders. If this is true, it would certainly make the Solaris licence less desirable to hobbyists than the ancient UNIX licence, unfortunately. --Mirian