[TCLUG] SCO code in Linux

Tue Jun 10 14:45:43 CDT 2003

What happens if it is proved that code from SCO found way into linux?
What are the results? Will there be
any serious threat to the future of linux? I am curious to know...

-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Johnson [mailto:waynej at dccmn.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 2:15 PM
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG] SCO code in Linux

Might even be because one of the SCO people contributed to the Linux
code.

But I think this has all been hashed out before.  Basically, it proves
nothing.

Mike Hicks said:
> Not much can be said yet about SCO's claims yet.  The analysts who
have
> seen the examples of supposed theft are under non-disclosure
agreements,
> so they can't talk much about it.  Slashdot reported that SCO's
evidence
> is just 80 lines of code, which is not even a drop in the bucket of
> Linux source (something in the neighborhood of 2500000 lines).
>
> A thought I just had: it's possible that both chunks of code look the
> same because the authors were working from a reference implementation
of
> a driver or other idea.  Maybe the actual origin of the source code is
> the public domain...
>
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