2 Feb
2007
2 Feb
'07
6:11 p.m.
There's no licensed AT&T code in the OS/x kernel or the apps... Unless you
buy the SCO argument that the methods and open api's from Unix need to be
licensed.
The AT&T suit with BSDI and UCB settled all the issues with the Net2 release
of BSD and FreeBSD released 2.0.x without any infringing code. The later
Mach is based off of BSD code from 4.3 and 4.4BSD which was resolved in that
suit.
Apple has nothing to fear on this one. I worked for Bell Labs and I was
surprised to find out the amount of Unix on Apple A/UX was around. Guys I
worked with actually worked on some stuff with Apple and Microsoft back in
the early 90's.
Bill
On 2/2/07, Warren Wolfe <wizard at voyager.net> wrote:
On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 15:39 -0800, Al Kossow wrote:
Thanks for that, Al. Would that apply to all future versions of
UNIX? That sounds more open-ended than licenses generally are. I would
think that they would have to get a new license for any new use of code,
such as the Mach stuff from BSD.
Peace,
Warren E. Wolfe
wizard at voyager.net
Okay...
I just checked, and Apple did NOT go to the nicety of
licensing OS X as a version of UNIX.
Apple has had a Unix source license for a VERY VERY long time.