An open appeal to SCO [LWN.net]

From:		Eric.M.Kidd@Dartmouth.EDU (Eric M. Kidd)
To:		lwn@lwn.net
Subject:		An open appeal to SCO
Date:		20 Jun 2003 15:44:36 EDT

I'm making it easy--15 minutes and 150MB of RAM for them to find code shared between Linux and Unix. This program uses the rolling hash technique proposed by Egan at the Inquirer.

I'm trying to make it as easy as possible for SCO (and other copyright holders) to report wrongdoing to free software maintainers without revealing any more than necessary about their own code.

http://www.randomhacks.net/stories/srcdupchk-release.html

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An open appeal to SCO

Posted Jun 26, 2003 8:46 UTC (Thu) by torsten (guest, #4137) [Link]

I'm trying to make it as easy as possible for SCO (and other copyright holders) to report wrongdoing to free software maintainers without revealing any more than necessary about their own code.

This is great! I also assume that your code can report SCO's wrong-doing (copied code) back to the appropriate author, for a possible infringement against SCO? Or are we assuming that SCO doesn't have their hand in the cookie jar?

SCO probably won't be at all interested in your technique

Posted Jun 28, 2003 1:47 UTC (Sat) by oloryn (guest, #7408) [Link]

Problem is, your program won't accomplish what SCO wants. What they appear to be aiming at is having the allegedly offending code remain in Linux, and then using the alleged presence of the offending code as leverage to collect fees from each Linux user. Actually giving the Linux community enough information to remove the offending code doens't work towards that goal, so they're going to resist it.