Message-ID: <01ea01bf6865$d7844a20$5d01a8c0@p2350>
From: "emanuel stiebler" <emu@ecubics.com>
To: "Mirian Crzig Lennox" <lennox@alcita.com>,
        "UNIX Heritage Society" <pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au>
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Subject: Re: Sun release source code for Solaris 8
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:28:28 -0700
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---- Original Message -----
From: Mirian Crzig Lennox <lennox@alcita.com>
To: UNIX Heritage Society <pups@minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au>
Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 18:00
Subject: Re: Sun release source code for Solaris 8


> Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> 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.

They don't "prevent" it, it seems that it is always steered by/at SUN.

>From the Webpage:

> If you want to make your source code modifications available to other
Solaris
> source code licensees, you can do so by passing the changes back to Sun,
and
> Sun will then post them to a secure website that you and other registered
users
> may access.

cheers,
emanuel