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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!henry.cs.adfa.oz.au!wkt From: wkt@hexnry.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.2bsd Subject: Petition SCO for PDP-11 UNIX Source Code Licenses Date: 1 Jul 1997 01:21:40 GMT Organization: ADFA News Service Lines: 24 Sender: wkt@henry.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) Message-ID: <5p9m34$6sd$7@euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.236.21.158 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.bugs.2bsd:806 Recently, two important events in the history of UNIX occurred. John Lions' commentary on 6th Edition UNIX was published, and SCO made freely available binary licenses available for 5th, 6th and 7th Edition UNIX. These old versions of UNIX are of great historical importance, but unfortunately, source code licenses for these systems cannot be bought. The PDP-11 UNIX Preservation Society is petitioning SCO to make source code licenses available to individuals. If you ever used UNIX on a PDP-11, believe that they are historically interesting, or even if you think owning a source code license to a REAL UNIX would be cool, then please SIGN THE PETITION at http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/PUPS/petition.html If you know anybody else who might be prepared to sign this petition, then pass this message onto them. Finally, check out the home page of the the PDP-11 UNIX Preservation Society at http://minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au/PUPS/ Many thanks in advance, Warren Toomey wkt@cs.adfa.oz.au