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Do they own all of their code?
Do they own all of their code?
Posted Sep 16, 2004 18:42 UTC (Thu) by NAR (subscriber, #1313)Parent article: Open Source Solaris?
Remember that Solaris is based on SCO-owned code [...] hope that Solaris goes out with a GPL-compatible license
If my memory is correct, some of the (public) Solaris header files have AT&T copyright notices. I would think that Sun can't release any files copyrighted by AT&T under GPL, can they?
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Do they own all of their code?
Posted Sep 16, 2004 19:53 UTC (Thu) by piman (subscriber, #8957) [Link]
It depends on their contracts with AT&T; they could have the right to sublicense. There's also the (as far as I know, still secret) result of the old AT&T vs. BSD case. Which could go either way.