Re: SCO's "proof"

[Tupshin Harper <tupshin@tupshin.com>]

Frank Gevaerts wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:52:13PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
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>>* Brandon Stewart (rbrandonstewart@yahoo.com) wrote:
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>>>compliments of "d1rkinator" from yahoo finance message board:
>>>
>>>The code SCO finds offending:
>>>
>>>www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
>>>www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh1.jpg
>>>      
>>>
>>Ah I was wondering if anyone had a copy of that.
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>>>Its location in Linux:
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>>>/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c
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>>>And its heritage:
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>>>minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/sys/sys/malloc.c.html
>>>
>>>Ok, SCO: This was easy. Now, show us the other many examples.
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>>>
>>Is it? What the hell was the copyright on that code?
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>
>AFAIK it was released under a BSD license by Caldera...
>
>Frank
>
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf

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-Tupshin