Re: Caldera and the Ancient UNIX license

2001-12-17 Thread Terry Lambert
Peter Jeremy wrote: I'm specifically looking at 2.11BSD - which is architecturally UFS but various sizes and constants are different (eg fewer direct/indirect blocks in the inode). In some ways this simplifies things (it may be possible to re-use much or all of the FreeBSD UFS code) but it

Re: Caldera and the Ancient UNIX license

2001-12-16 Thread Mike Barcroft
Warren Toomey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As for commercial use, that's a separate issue. I don't know how easy it would be for us to talk Caldera into allowing that. Isn't Caldera keen on the BSD license? Here's a relevent quote: Following the acquisition of Webmin by Caldera, all past and

Re: Caldera and the Ancient UNIX license

2001-12-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2001-Dec-16 17:18:37 +1100, Warren Toomey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly, call me crazy, but I thought the 2BSD filesystem layout was essentially UFS, i.e i-nodes at the start, and therefore would be pretty much the same as /sys/ufs/ufs in FreeBSD. I'll have to do a compare of the source

Re: Caldera and the Ancient UNIX license

2001-12-16 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 07:29:04AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2001-Dec-16 17:18:37 +1100, Warren Toomey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. The other almost-the-same UFS that could be useful is the Tru64 UFS. Last time I tried, I could mount a Tru64 UFS CD-ROM on FreeBSD, but the box would panic

Re: Caldera and the Ancient UNIX license

2001-12-16 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 16 December 2001 at 17:18:37 +1100, Warren Toomey wrote: In article by Greg Lehey: [about if and how Caldera is enforcing the Ancient UNIX http://www2.caldera.com/offers/ancient.html. Note also that in fact they allow access to the code via license

Re: Caldera and the Ancient UNIX license

2001-12-15 Thread Warren Toomey
In article by Greg Lehey: [about if and how Caldera is enforcing the Ancient UNIX http://www2.caldera.com/offers/ancient.html. Note also that in fact they allow access to the code via license described at http://www2.caldera.com/offers/ancient001/