| |||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||
SCO offers UnixWare licenses for LinuxSCO offers UnixWare licenses for LinuxPosted Jul 22, 2003 17:08 UTC (Tue) by MLKahnt (guest, #6642)In reply to: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux by Wol Parent article: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux I think it is less a question of whether the teams were kept separate than if SCO did include GPL'd code into UnixWare, it may well have happened before the transfer to Caldera, rather than from the time of having two active programming teams. While Novell did some nominal work with Unix after acquiring it, SCO has not had a reputation of active development or vision of the future of that system, which is why the development mindspace has moved to Linux and the *BSDs. An observation, however - the licenses matter. GPL'd code except as GPL'd callable modules would be a no-no for inclusion. BSD licensed stuff, however, is legal, AFAIK. I remember reading, years ago (as in late '80s of some previous millenium) that the SCO name was chosen as a marketing slight of hand - they tried to sneak in under the radar of large companies by leaving the impression that they were an office of the company, located in Santa Cruz.
(Log in to post comments)
|
|
||||||||||||