Star Access Releases BeBook, Be Newsletters
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 3rd Apr 2007 22:39 UTC, submitted by El-Al
BeOS & Derivatives "We are very pleased to announce that Access, the current holders of the BeOS intellectual property, has responded positively to our request for permission to reproduce the BeBook and all the Be Newsletters. As a result, we will be able to release these BeOS legacy documents under a Creative Commons license."
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RE: Access
by umccullough on Wed 4th Apr 2007 00:08 UTC in reply to "Access"
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2006-01-26

WOW... that's a pretty plain statement. But I already knew Bernd wasn't allowed to open-source BeOS code - that is obvious as he never owned it in the first place.

Anyone asking about open-sourced BeOS/Zeta code and how it could help Haiku can read some of the commentary here:

http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=17608

and specifically note:

http://www.freelists.org/archives/openbeos/04-2007/msg00020.html

Seriously, opening up the BeOS source would probably hurt Haiku more than help it at this point.

Edit: removed my own flaw here...

Edited 2007-04-04 00:10

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