Messages in this thread | | | From | Neil Moore <> | Date | Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:13:24 -0400 | Subject | Re: Unix code in Linux |
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Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: > The source being online is possible because the V1 - V7 source was > put under a BSD-like license by Caldera in 2002. A copy of the license > is still at ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/Caldera-license.pdf > > (there's much more at ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/, including > V6, V7 and 2.11BSD source). > > So, in this particular case this doesn't seem to be a problem.
The license to which you referred says, in part:
Copyright(C) Caldera International Inc. 2001-2002. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
[. . .] Redistributions of source code and documentation must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. [. . .]
The file in question in the Kernel does not include any Caldera copyright notice, and in fact claims that the copyright belongs to SGI. Isn't that a violation of Caldera's copyright?
Of course, if SGI has an unlimited right to relicense Unix code as its own, it's not an issue.
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