[Novalug] Microsoft demands royalties for open-source software

Ross Patterson RossPatterson@Comcast.Net
Mon May 14 18:20:35 EDT 2007


At 15:32 5/14/2007, b b wrote:
>- IIRC, the stack was from BSD? but did it pre-date
>the 1994 settlements?
>
>(IOW, not BSD-licensed? perhaps SCO has a claim to
>MSFT's early TCP/IP stack code?)

Even the pre-1994 4.2BSD TCP/IP code was freely redistributable.  The 
parts of Unix that AT&T had a copyright on weren't in that area.  The 
TCP/IP code was developed at Berkeley under ARPA grants for the 
explicit purpose of mass-release.

"Nothing to see here, move along" :-)

Ross 




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