Petition to SCO for PDP-11 UNIX Source Licenses

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The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
Dear Sirs/Madams,

We, the undersigned, are a group of people who are interested in obtaining legal access to the source code and binaries of the versions of UNIX that ran on the PDP-11 range of computers from Digital Equipment Corporation. We would like legal access to these versions of UNIX to be available because:

The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc. owns the copyright to these very old versions of UNIX. We understand and appreciate that SCO wishes to protect their intellectual property within, and ownership of, these versions of UNIX. Therefore, we wish to petition SCO to make available source code and binary licenses of these versions of UNIX so that:

We would be happy to purchase and be legally bound by a source code and binary license for PDP-11 UNIXes that meets SCO's requirements, as long as:

Note that the latter is already permitted, given SCO's binary license agreement for 5th, 6th and 7th Edition UNIX. We would also be happy with the following conditions imposed in the source code and binary license for PDP-11 UNIXes:

On a recent survey of people interested in such a license, over 120 people responded. Most of the respondents would agree to a license with the conditions and limitations outlined above, if the cost of such a license was less than US$200.

We urge you to consider

and make personal-use non-disclosure source code and binaries licenses for PDP-11 UNIXes available at a price which we can afford as individuals.

The UNIX community has played an extremely important role in the development and success of the UNIX operating system. The Santa Cruz Operation, Inc., as owners of the UNIX operating system source, would be repaying the UNIX community in some measure by providing source licenses for these old versions of UNIX. Although you would not profit greatly from the licenses, you would earn the respect and appreciation from many people who helped make UNIX what it is today.

Thank you for your time. Your response to our petition will be appreciated, and can be sent via Internet e-mail to Warren Toomey wkt@cs.adfa.edu.au.

Sincerely yours, the undersigned.

John S. Dysondyson@freebsd.org1.317.547.5181
Keith Huffkshuff@fast.nethome phone 610 740-9456
Norman Wilsonnorman@cs.yorku.ca
Lieven WillemsLieven.Willems@rug.ac.be
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Robert J. Kelleypasha@efn.org
Paul McJonesmcjones@pa.dec.com
Ken Harrenstienklh@us.oracle.com
Ozan S. Yigitoz@tor.securecomputing.com
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Allen Kossowaek@spies.com
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