[rescue] Ancient UNIX licenses!

Todd C. Miller Todd.Miller at courtesan.com
Fri Jan 25 00:15:53 CST 2002


In message <20020124014217.EB0B9B7 at proven.weird.com>
	so spake  (woods):

> But Hmmm.... I wonder why the UNIX System III source wasn't "upgraded"
> to this new license.  Except for a wee bit of kernel code, and some odds
> and sods of user utilities, like SCCS, and of course a whole bunch of
> bug fixes, it's pretty much identical to a 32V -- especially in terms of
> what a copyright license can protect.  Bummer, because SCCS was one of
> the things I wanted to use freely again.

The CSRG CD set from Kirk does include the SCCS sources in the
"final 4.4 source" in the local/sccscmds directory (3 versions it
would appear).  Looks like it will require a little massaging to
compile but nothing too difficult.

 - todd



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