Xref: utzoo comp.os.mach:342 comp.unix.questions:20860 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.os.mach,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: AT&T source license Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 90 20:29:05 GMT References: <1990Mar26.194904.25560@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 26 In-reply-to: jstewart@madhaus.utcs's message of 26 Mar 90 19:49:04 GMT In article <1990Mar26.194904.25560@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> jstewart@madhaus.utcs (John Stewart) writes: | We'd like to get source code for Mach from CMU. The bottleneck is that we | need to get an AT&T Unix source license so we can get a BSD source license | so we can a Mach license. Confused? Join the crowd. | | I've tried talking to AT&T but with little success so far. The people | I've spoken to seem to think any type of source license would cost around | $100,000. Maybe that would be reasonable if we were a commercial company | doing Unix development but we're not. We don't need AT&T source code at | all; all we need is a piece of paper that will make Berkeley happy. BSD code contains source code from the original UNIX'es. Mach 2.5 contains BSD code (which contains AT&T code). Thus you need to get AT&T source code. If AT&T no longers offers a reduced license agreement for Universities, and does not offer earlier versions of Unix (I believe you need at least a 32V license, you may need a System V.2 license, which went for ~40,000), you are indeed between a rock and a hard place. Since they own the source rights, there is not much you can do.... -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA Catproof is an oxymoron, Childproof is nearly so