SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux [LWN.net]

SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux

Posted Jul 22, 2003 3:47 UTC (Tue) by walterbyrd (guest, #11620)
Parent article: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux

>>It is time to start ask questions about the procedures used at SCO
to ensure that their codebase is clean! <<

You can ask questions, but you won't get answers for sco. SCO will not show it's codebase to anybody. Ex-SCO employees have stated that SCO was frantically stealing GPL code.

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SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux

Posted Jul 22, 2003 12:04 UTC (Tue) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]

Get an ex-SCO employee to sign a legal affidavit, and the linux developer concerned can demand that SCO release it into court.

If SCO won't show its codebase then, they have effectively admitted IN COURT that they are guilty of theft.

Bearing in mind SuSE now employs most of Caldera's linux developers, maybe one of them could spill the beans... or did SCOldera do the right thing and keep the Unix and linux teams apart ...

Cheers,
Wol

SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux

Posted Jul 22, 2003 17:08 UTC (Tue) by MLKahnt (guest, #6642) [Link]

I think it is less a question of whether the teams were kept separate than if SCO did include GPL'd code into UnixWare, it may well have happened before the transfer to Caldera, rather than from the time of having two active programming teams. While Novell did some nominal work with Unix after acquiring it, SCO has not had a reputation of active development or vision of the future of that system, which is why the development mindspace has moved to Linux and the *BSDs.

An observation, however - the licenses matter. GPL'd code except as GPL'd callable modules would be a no-no for inclusion. BSD licensed stuff, however, is legal, AFAIK.

I remember reading, years ago (as in late '80s of some previous millenium) that the SCO name was chosen as a marketing slight of hand - they tried to sneak in under the radar of large companies by leaving the impression that they were an office of the company, located in Santa Cruz.