Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA20265 for pups-liszt; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:28:36 +1100 (EST) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (root@freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA20254 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 15:27:45 +1100 (EST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA17254; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:57:36 +1030 (CST) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 14:57:36 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Mirian Crzig Lennox Cc: UNIX Heritage Society Subject: Re: Sun release source code for Solaris 8 Message-ID: <20000127145736.Q53307@freebie.lemis.com> References: <20000127110321.I53307@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-pups@minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au Precedence: bulk On Wednesday, 26 January 2000 at 20:00:57 -0500, Mirian Crzig Lennox wrote: > 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. I'm not 100% sure what they mean here. Nobody can stop you distributing software you wrote as long as it doesn't contain proprietary Sun code. You could do that with diffs. > If this is true, it would certainly make the Solaris licence less > desirable to hobbyists than the ancient UNIX licence, unfortunately. I think it is anyway. For hobby purposes, I'd much rather use either 4.4BSD (for modern usage) or one of the old UNIXes. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers