Caldera releases original unices under BSD license

Posted by Nik on Wednesday January 23, 2002 @01:46PM from the born-free dept.

q[alex] writes "Caldera International has done a very good thing. They have released the "Ancient" Unices they inherited when they purchased SCO under a "BSD-style" license. The license is available here, instructions on finding the source are here. Caldera (and before that SCO) had required people to obtain a free (as in beer) but somewhat restrictive license in order to get these old sources. The new BSD-style licensing only applies to the 16-bit PDI-11 versions and some of the early 32-bit releases (excluding System III and System V), but it's still very cool."

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Yuck - Old style BSD license by elbuddha · 2002-01-23 14:25 · Score: 5, Informative

Their "BSD-style" license is actually the old-style BSD license, which includes the particularly onerous Advertising Clause:

All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement: This product includes software developed or owned by Caldera International, Inc.

What most people think of now as the BSD license does not contain such a clause, and has not for quite some time.