Editors, please note this. [LWN.net]

Editors, please note this.

Posted Aug 19, 2003 19:53 UTC (Tue) by nx_in (guest, #14162)
Parent article: Why SCO won't show the code

The code which they are displaying as from linux kernel, is NOT
actually from linux kernel. See in the second picture:

if (size == 0)
   return) ((ulong_t NULL);

Now, this code doesn't even compile!! The actual code that exists in linux
is this: 

if (size == 0)
   return((ulong_t) NULL);

Now, this could be really dangerous.
Moreover, this file is part of only the ia64 port which not even 2% of
linux users use. Just why I am supposed to pay SCO ??

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Re: Editors, please note this.

Posted Aug 19, 2003 21:14 UTC (Tue) by lsweeks (guest, #14198) [Link]

Surely you can't mean the same ia64 release of Linux that SCO released on April 15th of this year. That would mean that they had released it under the GPL --AFTER-- they had already made the determination that it was their UNIX-derived code. Surely those clever folks wouldn't make a mistake like that. (o;)