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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