Please do not reply directly to this email. All additional comments should be made in the comments box of this bug. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449037 --- Comment #19 from Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> 2008-12-12 10:51:53 EDT --- So, I was about to try to reach out to Mark when I realized that he doesn't hold the Copyright on this code, Lachman Associates, Inc. does. Or rather, did. In 1989, Lachman Associates was purchased by Eastman Kodak's Interactive Systems subsidiary (formerly ISC, acquired by Kodak in 1988). Kodak sold the Intel-UNIX operating system portion of Interactive Systems to Sun Microsystems on September 26, 1991. Kodak sold the remaining parts of ISC to SHL Systemhouse Inc in 1993. SHL Systemhouse Inc was purchased by MCI in 1995. MCI became MCI WorldCom in 1998, which became WorldCom in 2000, went into Chapter 11 from 2002-2004, and was acquired by Verizon in 2005. It is not clear whether the afio code was considered part of the ISC OS portion, so the copyright owner could be any of these entities (in order of probability): 1. Sun Microsystems 2. Verizon (assuming they did not liquidate the IP during Chapter 11) 3. Kodak (sources: http://www.lachman.org/ http://www.centergate.com/rlachman.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERACTIVE_Systems_Corporation http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3653/is_199510/ai_n8732201 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCI_Inc. Now, if Sun does own the copyright from the ISC purchase, they're the most likely to relicense it with a Free license. Of course, you'd need to find someone at Sun who was motivated to track this down (and whether they own it or not). If Sun doesn't own it, then it is most likely that Verizon or Kodak owns it. If this is the case, I suspect you have a slim to zero chance of tracking down someone at either company who is motivated to determine whether they own the afio Copyright, then who is willing and capable of relicensing that copyrighted code under a Free license. I think you have a better chance of finding Jimmy Hoffa, but I wish you all the best. :/ -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-review mailing list Fedora-package-review@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-review