[Info-vax] Message from HP.

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <JqSnIy4hvutR at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> In article <bgpvs9FfeoaU1 at mid.individual.net>, bill at server2.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>> 
>> Name one proprietary, commercial OS that has been released to the
>> world in source?  No. CP/M doesn't meet that definition.
> 
>    I think Oracle put a stop to it, but I was told I could download
>    the source for Solaris.  Meets my definition.

>From the current Caldera Unix License:
   "with specific exclusion of UNIX System III and UNIX
    System V and successor operating systems:"

The version they were giving away was not the same as the version
they were selling.  Much like what Redhat does.  Solaris had SYS-V
code in it and that is still not releasable, thus the reason why
requests for even a Hobbyist license for Ultrix have always been
refused by HP. That's not a request for source, just permission
to us it and a license key.
 
bill

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