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Assumption

Assumption

Posted Dec 23, 2003 7:07 UTC (Tue) by Ross (guest, #4065)
Parent article: Holiday cheer from the SCO Group

There is an assumption in this analysis that this list of #defines is
copyrightable. I'm not sure that is a safe assumption to make. How
exactly could another compatible implementation be made that didn't use
the same names and numbers? Would any order other than increasing
numeric value make much sense?

The only remaning possible differences are whitespace (including comments)
and unrelated code. I would hope that errno.h would not contain any
unrelated code. As for whitespace, that was actually different.

IANAL.


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Oops: Ignore me

Posted Dec 23, 2003 7:31 UTC (Tue) by Ross (guest, #4065) [Link]

I somehow missed the paragraph with this sentence the first time I read the
article: "SCO will have a hard time convincing a judge anywhere that
copyrights can protect this sort of code".


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