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From: paul@prcrs.UUCP (Paul Hite)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: an HP 9000 hp-ux internals class anyone...
Keywords: unix internals classes
Message-ID: <1080@prcrs.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 90 14:36:09 GMT
References: <3856@umbc3.UMBC.EDU> <1076@prcrs.UUCP>
Organization: PRC Realty Systems, McLean, VA
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In article <1076@prcrs.UUCP>, I write:
> 
> We have a pile of source code licenses including one for HP-UX itself. 


I got quite a bit of email from that comment.  Apparently some of you
have tried to obtain an HP-UX source code license but without much 
luck.  Rather than answer the email individually, I thought that I'd
just post.  Here's what I know about the license.

First you must have an AT&T source license.  After that you can 
obtain a source license for a major release of HP-UX such as 3.0,
7.0, etc.  There is no way to obtain the source for a minor release
such as 3.1.  Each release costs $25,000.  I do not know if there is
any kind of special deal for educational institutions.  At present
we have the source code for 3.0 but our management is balking at the
thought of another $25,000 for 7.0.

The product contains code for the stuff that comes with HP-UX.  The
kernel, drivers, libraries, and commands are all there.  The 
compilers are missing, HP won't release the source code to these under 
any condition.  (At least that's what they told us.)  The source code
for other products such as Netlink, ARPA/Berkeley, NFS, X, are also
not present.  I assume that they are available separately, but we
have never tried to obtain them.

Some of you wanted to know who to contact.  We obtained the source
code through our saleman.  I assume that you should contact yours.

Paul Hite   PRC Realty Systems  McLean,Va   uunet!prcrs!paul    (703) 556-2243
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