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- From: tmt@osf.org (Tom Talpey)
- Subject: Re: STREAMS and OSF [Was: AT&T vs. BSDI ad nauseam
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.132709.10209@osf.org>
- Keywords: STREAMS OSF licence
- Sender: news@osf.org (USENET News System)
- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1331@pacsoft.com> <1992Jul24.165236.10937@Warren.MENTORG.COM> <1992Jul24.185653.3196@kithrup.COM> <1992Jul29.220142.3524@tgivan.wimsey.bc.ca>
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:27:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul29.220142.3524@tgivan.wimsey.bc.ca>, mak@tgivan.wimsey.bc.ca (Bob Makowski) writes:
- |> In article <1992Jul24.185653.3196@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
- |> >In addition, OSF specifically licensed parts of the SysVr3.x code from USL
- |> >in order to include it in OSF/1. Specifically, the STREAMS code, as there
- |> >were no such things in the original Mach code.
- |> >
- |>
- |> I was aware that OSF had a streams project ongoing, but I've heard nothing
- |> to suggest that OSF resolved this via the distribution, and concomitant
- |> royalties, of *any* post-SVR2 source baseline.
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- OSF/1 requires a System V R2.2 license but contains no other System V code.
- The STREAMS implementation in OSF/1 comes from Mentat, Inc. and contains
- features only now showing up in SysV4, such as parallel operation. OSF1/1.0
- is SVID2 compliant (SVR3 spec), while OSF1/1.1 is SVID3 compliant (SVR4).
- It was in part the restrictions first placed on the V.3 licenses which led
- to chartering OSF to create a more freely licensable alternative.
-
- Tom Talpey
- tmt@osf.org
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