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From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: net.legal
Subject: Re: Unix licenses when porting to new system
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Date: Mon, 12-Aug-85 17:02:44 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 12 17:02:44 1985
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> 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