below On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 8:51 PM, Cory Smelosky <[email protected]> wrote:
> OSF/1 1.0 and 2.0 sources ended up out somewhere...as I have sources to > them. > Interesting - based OSF/1 [386 probably] not Tru64 right? DEC did a lot of work to OSF/1 starting on the PMAX and then to Alpha. And I do not believe the sources were ever released by DEC or HP. The base OSF/1 was done from the IBM System V.3 license buy out. But DEC never bought out its UNIX license like Sun and IBM [and I think I remember HP did also, but I've forgotten that tid bit]. Have to check with TPM or someone in the UNIX press from those days. > I have DG/US as well. > Interesting - I did not believe they ever released that. I also do not believe they bought their license from AT&T/Novell so how it was released would be interesting to hear. > > Doesn't mean I can legally DO anything with it, though. > Hmm, be careful here. I'm not a lawyer - but I don't think you are supposed to possess it either - even if it is "old" or abandoned. That said, as I understand it, I believe the remediation is to surrend all copies to the owners of the IP [EMC in this case]. Many hackers take a view that if they owner of the IP goes away, the code should go to the public commons. But the truth is that DG IP is owned by EMC, just as HP owns the DEC IP assets. > > Apple are largely removing GPL'd stuff and going to differently-licensed > stuff. > Indeed but that's user space code. Their kernel was never GPL'ed. It was a dead fish license (and I was just talking about the kernel). Clem
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