Re: Did the SCO Group plant UnixWare source in the Linux kernel?

[jw schultz]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 08:57:35AM -0400, [e-mail] wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 06:43:49AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > It might be more interesting to look for stolen Linux code in Unixware,
> > I'd suggest with the support for a very well known Linux fileystem in
> > the Linux compat addon product for UnixWare..
> 
> Wouldnt it be halirous if whatever code SCO is talking about when they
> say there is Unix code in Linux turns out to be code some SCO employee
> ripped out of some GPL program and stuck it into Unixware.  That is
> actually far more likely than what they alledge.

Much of the commonality is probably no more a copy than
having "her bosom heaved with anticipation" in a romance
novel.

As for Linux code in UnixWare, I seriously doubt there is
that much code in UnixWare that was introduced by
SCO/Caldera or Novell.  Almost all of it came to them via
USL as part of SVR4.

Actually, my guess is that any extensive code similarity is
likely to be code incorporated into SVR4 from BSD or other
sources and not SCO property.  The parade of copyright
notices on SVR4 boot is a long one.

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