Copyrights in OpenSolaris source

Message ID: 273793
Posted By: nobbutl
Posted On: 2005-06-14 20:46:00
Subject: Copyrights in OpenSolaris source

Ok, well here's the first glance at what gives. The source is available from Sun as a torrent (http://dlc.sun.com/torrents/opensolaris-src-20050612.torrent) for a 44.3 Mb .tar.bz2 which untars to 27916 files in a tree under usr/src.

The stuff included is currently the kernel and the userspace. Drivers and help files are not yet available (see the roadmap at http://opensolaris.org/os/about/roadmap/). Astute Y!SCOXers will recall that SCOX has occasionally been uppity about help files.

The copyrights in there are predominantly Sun Microsystems, of course. But there's huge quantities of AT&T, USL, Bell Labs and UCB. Also FSF and *Microsoft*, DEC, HP, Linus, BSD, Larry Wall, Jeff Garzik, Red Hat, MIT, CMU, ANU, AMD, Intel, RSA, "Lehman Brotchers, Inc" (sic) ... and many many many more. (Incidentally, who were Mortice Kern Systems Inc.??)

I have so far seen *NO* copyright notices for Caldera, Santa Cruz, or SCO. None at all. Nor any for IBM. Could have missed some, but...

Make of that what you will.

I might post a Microsoft file just for kicks... but it's late.

Message ID: 273797
Posted By: atul666
Posted On: 2005-06-14 21:05:00
Subject: Re: Copyrights in OpenSolaris source

Mortice Kern Systems has a bunch of products, but they're best known for their MKS Toolkit, which provides a set of Unix-like tools on DOS& Windows-based systems.

Their website's here: http://www.mks.com/

I prefer Cygwin myself, but MKS Toolkit has been around for years upon years, and was your only Unix-on-M$ option for a long time.

Message ID: 273798
Posted By: nobbutl
Posted On: 2005-06-14 21:10:00
Subject: Re: Copyrights in OpenSolaris source

Thanks mate, that's an interesting detail.

By the way, it turns out that the MS contaminated stuff includes grep, cron and login... night, all!

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