Maybe SCO had a point

Maybe SCO had a point

Posted Aug 22, 2003 18:24 UTC (Fri) by lsweeks (guest, #14198)
In reply to: Maybe SCO had a point by dwalters
Parent article: Maybe SCO had a point

>If indeed you're right ken, and this is indeed Sys V v4 code (contrary to Eric's analysis), the right thing to do is to throw our hands up and admit it, apologise, remove it from 2.4, and take measures to try and prevent this kind of thing from happening again.

This sounds correct as it stands. However if this alleged SysV r4 code snippet dates from the period between 1993 and 1998 (which I must admit I doubt, but am throwing up here just as a what if) it may very well be in the public domain as a result of Novell/USL's actions during that period of time when they were suing BSDi and the UC Regents. On the other hand I would be happy and proud to find out that this snippet had been replaced by something better that was innovated by OSS programmers. That may not be possible either since there are very few ways to implement this function according to other analysis I have read.

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