On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 09:34:09PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-11 21:19:04 +0000]: > > Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The old Bourne shell is not free software. Therefore only commercial > > >proprietary systems have it available. > > >[...] > > >In order to find a Real Thing copy of the Bourne shell you would need > > >to run on a commercial proprietary system which still has the legacy > > >executables on the system. > > > > Well, not really. Here ya go: > > http://ftp.gcu-squad.org/tuhs/PDP-11/Distributions/research/Henry_Spencer_v7/ > > [...] > > Anybody want to do a Debian/V7 ? ;) > > Sweet! Thanks for posting that. But I hate you now because I will be > losing a lot of sleep staying up late to get that booted. :-) > > But none of those sources are free either. Just because you have > access to the source code does not make the source free software.
Wrong. Caldera (who now own Unix), have released the sources of old unices under a BSD-style license (the one with advertising clause) Have a look at : http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf (Also look at http://www.tuhs.org/) Frank > > Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
