From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: reiserfs_fs.h listed in SCO court docs Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 04:23:46 -0800 Message-ID: <3FB22652.3020700@namesys.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Jason Holt Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Jason Holt wrote: >Just looking through the list of supposedly infringing files at groklaw: > >http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2003111203544653 > >And they list: > >fs/reiserfs/do_balan.c >fs/reiserfs/fix_node.c >include/linux/reiserfs_fs.h > >Hans, did you sneaky look through SCO's IP and use it when writing your code? > > > -J > > > > > Hunh? Do they claim that we call some function that infringes (I have no idea what, kmalloc or something....) or that our code in that file itself infringes? When someone doesn't tell you what is allegedly infringing it is reallly hard to do anything. It is really really hard to imagine do_balan.c infringing, as it is not interface code, and nobody else uses trees like we do, and thus it would be harder for it to be contaminated by ext2 code (I am always worrying someone will get lazy and use some ext2 code without my noticing it, and we audit the code before each time we license it to prevent that) as part of someone conforming to VFS interfaces..... though I do see some tiny bit of VFS interface code there in do_balan.c.... I had decided that this was something to ignore and let IBM deal with but, sigh...... I am coming more and more to believe that Microsoft is almost surely funding this lawsuit. It is very much their style to do something like that. -- Hans