On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:25:59AM -0700, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote: : As I remember Linux is derived from minux(sp?) which was deliberately : created to be free of the original AT&T proprietary Unix code. The only : risk I perceive is the distros allowing some migration of AT&T into their : systems. If it is a publicity stunt as you say then the solution is to : challange SCO to find it and if any exists remove that part and rewrite : it. : : The BSD people who participated in removing the last vestages of the AT&T : to create Free BSD and Open BSD. : Up to V 4.4 it still had proprietary code and 4.5 was the first which was : free of that issue.
That's pretty off. The suit centered around 4.4BSD which was the code base for BSD386. When BSD386 stopped being supported NetBSD was created off that code base and FreeBSD shortly thereafter.
The lawsuit was settled when by Novell when they bought the USL from AT&T. Part of the settlement was rewriting the handful of "offending" files (6, I believe). This rewrite is what became the 4.4BSD/Lite-2 code base. NetBSD and FreeBSD re'synced their development trees to this code base.
OpenBSD wasn't even around at this time. They were an offshoot of NetBSD a little later on.
--Jerry
Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!
I believe the only relationshitp "Minix" has ever had with Linux was the original Linux kernel ran on the Minix filesystem. Minix was a processor independant OS written in C whereas even the very first version of the Linux kernel was written specificaly for the 386 and included some assembler. Feel free to correct me if I have my facts wrong. :-)