Re: Unix code in Linux

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[e-mail]>,
Neil Moore  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>Slashdotter lspd pointed this out in a recent thread, thereby
>demonstrating that slashdot isn't completely useless.
>
>Compare:
>  /usr/src/linux/arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c in Linux
>to:
>  unix/malloc.c in UNIX 6th Edition (page 25 of the Lions code,
>  lines 2522--2589)

BSD 4.3 and Unix V7 source is browsable online at
http://tamacom.com/unix/

Choose "V7" and search for "mfree".

The source being online is possible because the V1 - V7 source was
put under a BSD-like license by Caldera in 2002. A copy of the license
is still at ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/Caldera-license.pdf

(there's much more at ftp://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixArchive/, including
V6, V7 and 2.11BSD source).

So, in this particular case this doesn't seem to be a problem.

Mike.