From: Adam Flinton 

Paul Ranson wrote:
> "adam flinton"  wrote in message
> news:3eef9ad9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>So how come it doesn't thus own BSD? It's the same basic claim which is
>>anything built on top of AST&T'es orig work (inc architecture) is now
>>owned by SCO & that includes BSD.
>
>
> Because BSD is different, new stuff from before commercial Unix, TCP code,
> paid for by the US taxpayer etc etc.
>
> Should be common knowledge.
>

Obviously isn't to SCO. Did BSD spring from work done by AT&T? If so
case closed SCO own it (according to SCO).

>
>>Why? It has nothing to do with GPL per se & everything to do with
>>OSS'ing code in general. BSD licence is an OSS licence.
>
>
> Linux includes code from IBM and others that came from commercial Unix and
> has been 'GPL'd'. Has any BSD used this code?
>

Has BSD used any code contrib'ed by any *ix company or even people working
for a *ix company?

Adam

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