Is the UNIX source code free and open source? Or does someone own it?

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Adam <adam15906@atlanticbb.net> wrote:
> Is the UNIX source code free and open source? Or does someone own it?

The Trademarked UNIX is owned by SCO and not opensource ( until SCO folds wh
ich
might not be that far away)

Simular products like Linux and FreeBSD is Open Source and is freely
avaliable to anyone filling the license conditions ( and they are not
difficult to obey)

Other products sa SOLARS is owned by vendors, which may or may not
disclose the source(es)

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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 07:02:03 +0000 (UTC), phn@icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
<phn@icke-reklam.ipsec.nu> wrote:
> Adam <adam15906@atlanticbb.net> wrote: 
>
> The Trademarked UNIX is owned by SCO and not opensource ( until SCO
> folds which might not be that far away)

Actually, what with all the SCO litigation, things are not so simple.
Novell has registered a lot of the same copyrights to ancient UNIX
that SCO has, and there's some litigation going on over this (though
SCO chose to go about it in a rather roundabout way, suing Novell
for Slander of Title).

Also, SCO (then Caldera, when it was still a viable technology
company and not just a litigation machine) has released old UNIX
code up to V7/32V under a BSDish license.

Additionally, one could interpret what you said so as to arrive in the
false conclusion that SCO owns the UNIX Trademark; this is not so.
The trademark is The Open Group's, and may be used of any system
appropriately certified by them. This has nothing to do with the
ancestry of the code, but rather the conformance to certain Open Group
standards.

All this and more has been handled rather well on Groklaw
<URL: http://groklaw.net/ >

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