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USL removed BSD copyrights

Authored by: celtic_hackr on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 01:26 AM EDT

Well that's a different ball of wax. The GP didn't make it clear he was talking
about copyrights being removed, just not there. There were two things with USL
case:
1) They didn't have the copyright notices on their code, and hence they had no
grounds to sue, as without the notice they become PD,
2) They removed the notices from BSD code, which is big no-no.

And
3) BSD should have pushed the issue and gotten a ruling, and we wouldn't now
have to deal with a lot of this, and SCO would never have happened. And I'd
probably be writing from a BSD Unix OS instead of Linux. I was 1 month away from
ordering a BSD Unix (forget the actual product name, hey it was a long time ago,
ok) when it got pulled from the market by that case. I didn't know it at the
time, just that it was no longer in the catalog.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

USL removed BSD copyrights - Authored by: Wol on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 09:25 AM EDT
- USL removed BSD copyrights - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 10:24 AM EDT

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