Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.legal Subject: Re: Unix licenses when porting to new system Message-ID: <648@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 17:02:44 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.648 Posted: Mon Aug 12 17:02:44 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 03:07:04 EDT References: <345@ttrdc.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 16 > What is one supposed to do (if anything) to legally be able to port Unix > to a computer upon which it formerly did not run? I.e., what if somebody > wants to port Berkeley Unix onto a 3BXX (dream on!) or Standard Unix onto > some strange-o machine? What kind of license is one supposed to get for the > legal right to try this? Thanks in advance to anyone who answers. > -- You buy a source license. You do this for machines that you don't want to run UNIX on, but you use the core utilities ported over to that environment as well (supposes you have a C compiler). If you want to do something with Berkeley code, you have to deal with there terms. As I recall, Berkeley's agreement does not mention machines at all, it is per tape. -Ron