Interview in Byte with Chris Sontag/SCO and FUD relating toBSDsettlement agreement

[Terry Lambert]

Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> Yes, it reminded me of that thread, but wkt was actually referring to
> System III, not 32V.

I am also pretty certain that it was widely stated at the time
that the UCB's license was the older Western Electric license,
which is the same license which allowed Lyon's to publish his
commentary, legally, including the kernel source code.

While the university, proper, did obtain a more modern license,
that license could not be retroactive to change the terms of
the original license.

The original licenses were very lenient in their terms, since,
at the time, the 1956 consent decreee prohibited them from
making money from software sales, as part of their being a
regulated monopoly at the time.  It was only later, after the
breakup, that they were permitted to profit from sales of their
software.  And that's when license fees went up.

-- Terry