Re: [Sheflug] Mad Hatter

[Alex Hudson <home [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 16:27, Jon Masters wrote:
> > So they did not buy licenses from SCO then??
> 
> AFAIK they restated that their original UNIX source license was
> perpetual and that the nature of Solaris meant that it was not
> affected.

Not quite.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/applications/0,39020384,2137395,00.htm

Sun has continually paid out money for Unix licences for years and
years; they probably have enough licences to cover themselves. I'm not
sure what you mean about Solaris; Solaris is the SysV OS - SunOS was
BSD-derived.

> SunOS was a derived work however I believe Solaris is by now a
> complete rewrite with very little if any original source code in it.

I thought the rename to Solaris was just a marketing thing (as well as
the assimilation of SysV)? IIRC, Solaris 1.x didn't even exist - it was
a retro-active rename of certain SunOS products. 

Cheers,

Alex.


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