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At the risk of derailing the conversation on this fun project, one my first thoughts was that this game for a long-dead computer is probably still under copyrig
by SloopJon 4y ago
At the risk of derailing the conversation on this fun project, one my first thoughts was that this game for a long-dead computer is probably still under copyright for another few decades. Then it occurred to me that even after all of that SCO nonsense, I don't know what the copyright/license status of ancient Unix is.
The code in this repo does not show any license. The repo from which it's derived claims GPL 3.0, although the README notes: "The code in the original scans are (c) Micro Focus who own the rights to the Unix source code" (Micro Focus International having acquired Attachmate, which acquired Novell, which bought Unix System Laboratories from AT&T).
- chungy 4y ago> after all of that SCO nonsense, I don't know what the copyright/license status of ancient Unix is. It's under a BSD-style license: http://www.lemis.com/grog/UNIX/ancient-source-all.pdf http://www.lemis.com/grog/UNIX/ancient-source-all.pdf
- SloopJon 4y agoI wonder whether that license is valid, given that it was issued by Caldera, when Novell was in fact determined to be the copyright holder. I did find a forum in which a user stated: "[Novell's Legal Vice President] said that while Novell retains certain copyrights over UNIX, they also acknowledge and recognize the validity of certain legacy SCO/Caldera licenses regarding UNIX technologies." https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25745 https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25745