[Simh] Pontus asks Is [the] BSD [license] liberal enough?

[Cory Smelosky]

On Sun, 7 Jun 2015, Clem Cole wrote:

> A couple of "for instance" here might help.  Tru64 is a derivited work from
> a lot of places, a big one being the OSF/1 kernel which was based on the
> CMU Mach uKernel.   CMU had made rhe Mach ukernel "open source" and gave it
> away - but the license did says to hd say you work was based on something
> you got from CMU.   OSF and DEC used that technology and now DEC is long
> gone, but getting the DEC sources is difficult [unless the owners of that
> IP - in this case HP -  some how released it].    Ultrix is in the same
> camp, or for that matter the DG rewrite of System V [which was one of the
> best pure Unix implementations for a SMP system].   Similarly, OSx (darwin
> etc) is also based on Mach, BSD etc..   At one time, Apple did chose to
> make darwin available, but not all of the latest enhancements from Apple
> have been made available.
>

OSF/1 1.0 and 2.0 sources ended up out somewhere...as I have sources to 
them.  I have DG/US as well.

Doesn't mean I can legally DO anything with it, though.

Apple are largely removing GPL'd stuff and going to differently-licensed 
stuff.

> Clem
>

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