Yes, there is a problem [LWN.net]

Yes, there is a problem

Posted Aug 22, 2003 2:35 UTC (Fri) by mmarq (guest, #2332)
In reply to: Yes, there is a problem by cwitty
Parent article: Maybe SCO had a point

OK, who was the guy ?

"...or maybe it's not a violation at all..."

"We" better make ours minds kickly, because a torrent of FUD is coming this way!

I could have been (i wasent really) the one copying it from 32V, i evolved it for SMP and it happens to be identical to sys V in 2 or 3 lines that weren't in the original algorithm, and in places where IT WAS HELPLESS not to happen...

COULDNT USL OR NOVELL HAVE COPYED IT WHEN IT WAS DEVELOPED FOR SGI SYSTEMS ?

IMHO, "WE" WILL NEVER KNOW IT REALLY!

In Linux it sliped the copyright notice, so what, it dosent make it illegal copying to the point of erasing that code. Why not just incert the proper copyright notice...

Is SCO task to prove precedence, wich they cant, because in such a trivial piece of code they would already have showned black on white evidence...

IN THE SAKE OF THE THRUE, is Linux/OSS community task not to get paranoid, in matters that in my belive they can not prove with "TOTAL EXACTNESS" !

The Linux/OSS is making SCO & Ma$ter win it's FUD, by excess of solicitude

HOW GOOD THOSE SCO & Ma$ter FUD BASTARDS ARE, HEIM ?

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Yes, there is a problem

Posted Aug 22, 2003 19:28 UTC (Fri) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222) [Link]

I say we simply take the high moral ground:

1. We don't steal code.
2. Code thieves will not be welcome.
3. IF SCO has been wronged, we'll fix it. *IF*.
4. This does not give SCO any excuse to: (1) cry "conspiracy, (2) disparge the Linux community, (3) disparage the GPL.
5. (and this is most important,) Make sure everyone is aware that there is a certain amount of obscurity here. Caldera was involved with Linux, so was SGI, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and others.
6. Caldera's behavior WRT their copyrights and how they were being enforced or not *counts.* If anyone at Caldera knew about any of this and looked the other way, it *counts.* And if Caldera staff were shuffling code back and forth between Linux and proprietary UNIX, with no regard for the GPL, thinking neither of us would care as long as they were helping LInux, that counts, also.