Re: [linrad] flavors and colors of Linux. Is RedHat strange orcharming?

[Frank Brickle <brickle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

One of the examples was at least as old as the first edition 
of the Kernighan and Richie book, and public domain in the 
strictest sense. The other example was an implementation of 
the  Berkeley Packet Filter, a clean-room job and issued 
under the BSD license.

There is no infringing code, period.

As far as IBM proper is concerned, it appears that the 
"3-rocket-scientist" team looking for infringing code 
amounted to nothing more than a grep on the kernel tree for 
the strings JFS, SMP, RCA, NUMA, and SMP. Most of the 
"infringements" found were comments that the feature in 
question was not implemented.

If anything, the odds are that GPL code was illictly 
incorporated into SCO products.

Please see http://www.groklaw.net for a very full account of 
this and associated issues.

73
Frank
AB2KT

Joe Fitzgerald wrote:
> w3sz@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> > Hello, All!
>
> > incorporating SCO-copyrighted code into it.  They have sited specific examples from
> > the 2.4 and 2.5 kernels.  
>
> I have been following this pretty closely ... has SCO cited any code that was actually stolen?  This is the biggest irritation about this case ... they don't tell us what code was stolen (unless I have missed something).
>
> To my knowledge, they have only publicly pointed to code that is the same in their Unix and Linux ... no surprise since this code was previously available, and incorporated legally into both products.
>
> See http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/smoking-fizzle.html
>
> -Joe KM1P


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