- LWN: Why SCO won’t show the code
Comment by mdrejhon:
Found the V5 source code in its entirety:
Photo of SCO Slide:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh1.jpgNear exact match to 30 year old source code in V5:
http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V5/usr/sys/ken/malloc.c.htmlWhat the heck is SCO doing, claiming 30 year old source code as their own?
Interesting, this code was removed 7 weeks ago because it was “ugly as hell”:
There’s also a very informative lkml thread [theaimsgroup.com] about this and it’s already been removed from the source tree [bkbits.net], but apparently not because of copyright issues but because it was just “ugly [theaimsgroup.com] as hell [theaimsgroup.com]”.
- Analysis of Linux Code that SCO Alleges Is In Violation Of Their Copyright and Trade Secrets. – Bruce Perens
- TWikIWeThey: SCOvsIBM
- SCO’s now claiming over a million lines of offending code (Linux 2.4.20 is ~4.4M LOC) – that they can’t show anybody, um.. because it’s a big secret, yeah… that’s the ticket
Insight from FJ:
Perhaps a more informative estimate would be to take the difference in the number of lines in the 2.2 kernel vs the 2.4 kernel, since SCO claims 2.2 is fine but 2.4 has copied code.
3,377,902 (2.4) – 1,800,847 (2.2) = 1,577,055
In other words, SCO claims that 2/3 of the improvements in the 2.4 series kernel belong to them. That is a rather unrealistic statement since a lot of those enhancements didn’t come from IBM.
Also:
The SMP code (all platforms) seems to be ~15000 lines of which ~800000 lines is copied verbatim from sysV.
So, am I to assume that the Linux kernel is 5333% infringing code?
Man, I wish I could code that efficiently.
Hey, so if SCO claims the GPL is invalid, by what license are they distributing Samba in their new version of OpenServer?
The SCO Forum crowd applauded when SCO executives announced that an
upcoming version of its OpenServer–code-named Legend–will support the
latest releases of Java; include new hardware support, such as
universal serial bus (USB)
printer drivers; contain expanded security features; and provide better
compatibility with Microsoft Windows through version 3 of Samba,
which is developed by an open-source group. The OpenServer update is
scheduled to debut in the fourth quarter of next year.