Re: SCO's infringing files list [LWN.net]

From:		Linus Torvalds <torvalds-AT-osdl.org>
To:		Andries Brouwer <aebr-AT-win.tue.nl>
Subject:		Re: SCO's infringing files list
Date:		Tue, 23 Dec 2003 12:27:57 -0800 (PST)
Cc:		Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch-AT-sfgoth.com>, "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate-AT-pixelized.ch>, "linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org>, "Eric S. Raymond" <esr-AT-thyrsus.com>, Jonathan Magid <jem-AT-ibiblio.org>, "H. J. Lu" <hjl-AT-lucon.org>, "Adam J. Richter" <adam-AT-yggdrasil.com>

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 09:56:11AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > It's almost certainly the "libc-2.2.2.tar.Z" file that we want
> 
> I just uploaded a copy to
> ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/libc.archive/libc/libc-222.taz

Yup, and I can confirm two things:

 - the strings match 100% (well, duh, we already saw that from the binary)
 - it doesn't even have an "errno.h"

that, together with the timing, pretty much proves that the kernel header
was indeed just auto-generated from sys_errlist[] of that timeframe, with 
a program very much like the one I already posted.

Now, the libc file just says 

	/* This is a list of all known signal numbers.  */

(which is obviously just a cut-and-paste from siglist.c n the same 
directory). But it shouldn't much matter, since I don't think SCO really 
is going to try to claim copyright ownership of the result of standard C 
library interactions like using "sys_errlist[]".

(I take that back - _of_course_ they are going to try to claim ownership. 
After all, they already claimed ownership of code I provably wrote).

			Linus
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