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Posted Sep 4, 2025 6:08 UTC (Thu) by maskray (subscriber, #112608)
Parent article: New ELF specification for public review

Cary Coutant, who retired from HP and Google, is maintaining the specification. He is working to [relicense the ELF specification under a more permissive license](https://groups.google.com/g/generic-abi/c/doY6WIIPqhU/m/o...). If this effort is unsuccessful, anyone can take the Tool Interface Standard (TIS) Portable Formats Specification, version 1.2, which is considered to be in the public domain. If anyone knows more about license, please tell me and I will update my notes at https://maskray.me/blog/2024-05-26-evolution-of-elf-objec... :)

The "2023-2025 Xinuos Inc. All rights reserved." notice is controversial as the work it refers to was entirely done by contributors outside that company (Cary, Ali, etc).. The company did not do anything with the maintenance. Cary doesn't work for company (https://groups.google.com/g/generic-abi/c/9OO5vhxb00Y/m/D... )

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Posted Sep 4, 2025 6:46 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (1 responses)

Isn't Xinuos one of the spin-offs from the SCOG/IBM law-suit saga? Iirc they were spun off out of SCOG when it went bust with all of the alleged IP rights, but without lawsuit rights.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinuos

Cheers,
Wol

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Posted Sep 5, 2025 16:50 UTC (Fri) by Hobart (subscriber, #59974) [Link]

Yeah. And the SCO v IBM litigation is still ongoing in their filings today -

> Xinuos filed a notice of appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit:
> No. 25-1073 (filed Apr. 29, 2025)
> Appeal remains pending as of Sept. 3, 2025.

https://dockets.justia.com/docket/circuit-courts/ca2/25-1073