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They're NOT settled, but they're settled for SCO
Authored by: Wol on Tuesday, May 28 2013 @ 12:22 PM EDT
As far as I'm aware, UCB (Berkeley) did NOT transfer any copyrights to AT&T.
They gave AT&T a licence.

Where AT&T shot themselves in the foot, firstly, was that they had a
corporate policy of stripping off ALL copyright statements. What the US gets up
to internally is none of our business, but a LOT of BSD code was copyright
either University College London or Wollongong University Australia. Stripping
off international copyrights is likely to *seriously* mess with your ability to
export the product.

And secondly (but a bit irrelevant here) was that, BECAUSE they had stripped the
copyrights, one of the prime pieces of code they sued Berkeley over was actually
Berkeley's own code, and provably so. Once UCB showed the Judge that one of the
centrepiece planks of AT&T's complaint was actually UCB's code, their goose
was cooked.

Cheers,
Wol

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They're NOT settled, but they're settled for SCO
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 30 2013 @ 09:33 AM EDT
I think there's some confusion here.
The fact is that the original UNIX OS was developed at Bell Labs, a division of
AT&T. Now, I can believe that Bell took a portion of the code Berkeley
developed from their code and incorporated it back into the Bell source, but I
don't know the specifics beyond that.
One thing I do know is this:
The original user interface developed by Bell was the Bourne Shell (sh); and
Berkeley developed the C-Shell (csh).

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