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Notes from the SCO conference call - re: LawyerNotes from the SCO conference call - re: LawyerPosted Jun 7, 2003 20:25 UTC (Sat) by tjc (guest, #137)In reply to: Notes from the SCO conference call - re: Lawyer by wweber Parent article: Notes from the SCO conference call This could be a BIG opportunity for the FreeBSD people to polish up their distribution, get some more documentation out, and help replace all those cute penguins out there with cute red daemons. Well, in a worse case senario I don't see that there's anything that would prevent Linux from using BSD code. The respective licenses seem to allow code to flow from BSD to Linux, but not vise-vera. But it seems unlikely that it will ever come to this, unless some judge makes a particularly bone-headed ruling. I think that the worse that could happen is that a court rules that SCO owns certain aspects of SVR4, whether covered by POSIX/FIPS or no, and Linux has to reimplement certain things such as IPC and syncronization, for example. It's hard to see even this happening, but there's this little voice that keeps telling me that SCO can't be as dumb as they look. :-)
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