[clue-tech] CentOS

[Ed Hill]

On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 11:34 -0700, mike havlicek wrote:
> Think of Bell labs... the distribution of SysV and the
> development of BSD. 
> 
> How did any commercial UNIX ever evolve? The license
> for SysV was "cheeply" sold to UCB ... I think they
> paid $35 for the source. But up until recently how was
> e.g. Sun able to require paid fees for OS software
> aquired as they did? Or how bout SCO? HP-UX, IRIX???

Hi Mike,

What you're talking about above is only tangentially related to the GPL.
What we were discussing was how the GPL forbids the creation of
proprietary software from GPL-ed software by adding bits or adding
license terms.  It simply cannot (legally) be done.

Licenses are a kind of contract.  And, like any contract, you should
read it and understand what is being stipulated.  If your company or
livelihood or whatever depends upon the terms then you should, by all
means, seek good legal advice to help you understand the rules,
ramifications, etc.

Ed

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