Posted by: Siberian Hamster
on May 19, 2003 10:40 PM
This theory is as good as any I've heard. If the Caldera coders that put LKP into UnixWare (in a hurry, without documenting what they were doing) were the same ones that moved over to SuSE, then someone looking at UnixWare afresh (and just dying to find some IP violation) would naturally conclude that Linux contained some UnixWare code.
For the sakes of those Caldera--->SuSE coders, I hope the code in question is just "glue code," easily subsumed under the "fair use" provisions in copyright law. Otherwise, someone's continued employment at SuSE could be in jeopardy.
As for SCO, they may be liable for all sorts of damages that their rude behaviour has caused, but UnixWare source code will never be GPL'd. The worst that could happen is that SCO is enjoined from distributing UnixWare until the offending Linux code is removed. That would be suitably embarrassing for a company that seems determined to show the world their ass.
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Good theory
Posted by: Siberian Hamster on May 19, 2003 10:40 PMFor the sakes of those Caldera--->SuSE coders, I hope the code in question is just "glue code," easily subsumed under the "fair use" provisions in copyright law. Otherwise, someone's continued employment at SuSE could be in jeopardy.
As for SCO, they may be liable for all sorts of damages that their rude behaviour has caused, but UnixWare source code will never be GPL'd. The worst that could happen is that SCO is enjoined from distributing UnixWare until the offending Linux code is removed. That would be suitably embarrassing for a company that seems determined to show the world their ass.
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