Maybe SCO had a point [LWN.net]

Maybe SCO had a point

Posted Aug 22, 2003 2:01 UTC (Fri) by adamruth (guest, #12380)
In reply to: Maybe SCO had a point by Arker
Parent article: Maybe SCO had a point

One thing that I haven't heard much about (or skimmed over too quickly) is whether or not
and what versions of BSD this code appeared in. Would this code have been part of the
AT&T settlement with BSDI and thus BSDI could re-release it under any other license?

If the code appeared, properly, under a GPL compatible BSD license, then it wouldn't really
be a problem.

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Maybe SCO had a point

Posted Aug 22, 2003 12:32 UTC (Fri) by Arker (guest, #14205) [Link]

It's my understanding that that's a no. The code in question is descended from v32 or an earlier version of AT&T Unix. I did find, and the article mentions, some very similar code in 2.11BSD, but on close examination it looks like that's probably a separate modification of v32. 4.4BSDLite (the first certain unencumbered version) doesn't seem to have it. You're welcome to take a look yourself, I didn't look too closely, just ran a couple pattern matches.