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LWN: Why SCO won't show the code
by bucy at 3:34 pm EDT, Aug 19, 2003 |
] At SCO's annual reseller show, the company's executives
] put up a couple of slides as a way of demonstrating how
] Unix code had been "stolen" and put into Linux. The two
] slides were photographed and have since appeared on Heise
] Online; see them here and here. The escape of these
] slides has allowed the Linux community to do something it
] has been craving since the beginning of the SCO case:
] track down the real origins of the code that SCO claims
] as its own. The results, in this case, came quick and
] clear. They do not bode well for SCO. |
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RE: LWN: Why SCO won't show the code
by Decius at 3:46 pm EDT, Aug 19, 2003 |
bucy wrote:
] ] At SCO's annual reseller show, the company's executives
] ] put up a couple of slides as a way of demonstrating how
] ] Unix code had been "stolen" and put into Linux. The two
] ] slides were photographed and have since appeared on Heise
] ] Online; see them here and here. The escape of these
] ] slides has allowed the Linux community to do something it
] ] has been craving since the beginning of the SCO case:
] ] track down the real origins of the code that SCO claims
] ] as its own. The results, in this case, came quick and
] ] clear. They do not bode well for SCO. Actually, I disagree. They bode very well for SCO. All this discussion about the code being old, and being published in a text book, is meaningless. Its still copyrighted AT&T code, which is what SCO bought. The only concern of interest is the BSD licence. 1. This code as included in linux before the linux code was release by SCO under the BSD license. 2. This code does not contain SCO copyright notices, and therefore is not legal under the BSD license. Silly? Yes. But legal. |
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LWN: Why SCO won't show the code
by Rattle at 4:01 pm EDT, Aug 19, 2003 |
] The code in question is found in
] arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c in the 2.4 tree. It carries
] an SGI copyright. It seems that SGI was not entirely
] forthcoming in documenting the source of its source; some
] of the code in question was, indisputably, not written at
] SGI. So where does it really come from?
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] This code is from sys/sys/malloc.c in V7 Unix. It has
] been widely published; among other things, it can be
] found in Lion's Commentary on Unix (if you can get a
] copy). It featured in this 1984 Usenet posting. And,
] crucially, it has been circulated with the V7 Unix
] source, which was released by Caldera (now the SCO Group)
] under the BSD license. SCO would like the world to forget
] about that release now, but the Wayback Machine
] remembers. |
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