Re: Ancient BSD's Licensing & Trademarks when porting and/or forking V7 and/ or 2.x - 4.x BSD's

2016-02-10 Thread Martin
Yeah Thanks. I was having a look at some of the source code and you are right Jeremy. The code licencing for most BSD's before 4.4BSD or non UNIX/32V and Versions 1-7 of Unix is really mixed and unclear as to the licence. Which is sad to some degree and makes it a nightmare. Though i have always go

Re: Ancient BSD's Licensing & Trademarks when porting and/or forking V7 and/ or 2.x - 4.x BSD's

2016-02-09 Thread John Nemeth
On Feb 10, 4:41am, Martin wrote: } } Well it all honesty 3BSD was just an example that came to my head. I am } actually looking at 2.11BSD mostly. } I understand the caldera licence is a bsd-style licence which correct me if } I'm wrong includes 2.11BSD? } So what you are saying is i could create

Re: Ancient BSD's Licensing & Trademarks when porting and/or forking V7 and/ or 2.x - 4.x BSD's

2016-02-09 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Wed, 10 Feb 2016, Martin wrote: > Of course that is not what I was trying to suggest. Perhaps I should > have made it more clear but I am not trying to void the original > licence in any way shape or form. I am asking because I do not want > to. Though Lyndon you have answered my question. T

Re: Ancient BSD's Licensing & Trademarks when porting and/or forking V7 and/ or 2.x - 4.x BSD's

2016-02-09 Thread Martin
Of course that is not what I was trying to suggest. Perhaps I should have made it more clear but I am not trying to void the original licence in any way shape or form. I am asking because I do not want to. Though Lyndon you have answered my question. That a project released under a BSD-style Licenc

Re: Ancient BSD's Licensing & Trademarks when porting and/or forking V7 and/ or 2.x - 4.x BSD's

2016-02-09 Thread Martin
Well it all honesty 3BSD was just an example that came to my head. I am actually looking at 2.11BSD mostly. I understand the caldera licence is a bsd-style licence which correct me if I'm wrong includes 2.11BSD? So what you are saying is i could create a fork/ continuation of the 2.11BSD under for

Re: Ancient BSD's Licensing & Trademarks when porting and/or forking V7 and/ or 2.x - 4.x BSD's

2016-02-09 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Have a look here: http://wiki.tuhs.org/doku.php?id=events:free_licenses In particular note that in 2002 the copyright owner made the old V7 code and 32V Unix code available as open source with a BSD-like license. While 3BSD was derived from 32V, it also included a lot of other code that was copy

Ancient BSD's Licensing & Trademarks when porting and/or forking V7 and/ or 2.x - 4.x BSD's

2016-02-08 Thread Martin
Hi, I am after some verification on my understanding with what is trademarked and the licensing terms when it comes to using source code from V7 UNIX and the 22-bit pdp-11 BSD's as well as the 32-bit VAX BSD's (as mentioned in the title) to either fork or port it to a new platform. For arguments s