Heise reports from SCO Forum [LWN.net]

Heise reports from SCO Forum

Posted Aug 19, 2003 16:02 UTC (Tue) by frazier (guest, #3060)
In reply to: Heise reports from SCO Forum by BrucePerens
Parent article: Heise reports from SCO Forum

Bruce,

That license doesn't look GPL compatible to me due to the following:

The following copyright notice applies to the source code files for which this license is granted.
Copyright(C) Caldera International Inc. 2001-2002. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
Redistributions of source code and documentation must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software must display the following acknowledgement:
This product includes software developed or owned by Caldera International, Inc.

Provided this is the case (and I'm following licenses correctly), inclusion in a GPL'd system would be in violation of Caldera's license. That noted, once again Caldera/SCO has likely redistributed this code (uh, set of comments) under the GPL for their own Linux distribution.

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Heise reports from SCO Forum

Posted Aug 19, 2003 16:19 UTC (Tue) by BrucePerens (guest, #2510) [Link]

The same code is available under the BSD license without the advertising clause in code copyrighted by the University. I assume this code is subject of the USL vs. BSDI lawsuit and its following settlement. I think it's time for the University to say something about the settlement terms, which aren't entirely public although the results are well-known. We can subpoena them in one of the lawsuits, if necessary. If this came down to attribution and the advertising clause in the Caldera license, they'd have no case anyway.

Bruce

Heise reports from SCO Forum

Posted Aug 19, 2003 17:36 UTC (Tue) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

"Identical typing errors in the comments as well as unusual ways of writing would have left traitorous traces, to stated Sontag"

" team for pattern recognition had angeheuert, around ten thousands from program lines to through forests. The few code sequences shown apart from the comments were made to a large extent illegible, alleged, in order to protect SCOs author-genuine"

AFAI can read, "they" are making pretty vague, and in a rogue manner, allegations about the copying "mantra"... there is no conclusive statement that garanties that they are talking about this particular algorithm, and not just showing "pattern" like "Identical typing errors" to prove that Linux/OSS are thieves, even without having stealed anything!...

The clear intention, is to confuse the Linux/OSS community, because it is all ears now, as this almost blowing up of the LWN server is prove, and maintain them as far as possible from defeating is master M$, aligned behind "corporate" interests, and at the same time collect a "FEW" dollars from stock speculation and a few really scared users...

In few words, Plain "Criminal" Diversion...