Re: SCO's "proof"

[Tupshin Harper]

Frank Gevaerts wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:52:13PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>  
>
> > * Brandon Stewart (rbrandonstewart@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> >    
> >
> > > Its location in Linux:
> > >
> > > /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c
> > >
> > > And its heritage:
> > >
> > > minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/sys/sys/malloc.c.html
> > >
> > > Ok, SCO: This was easy. Now, show us the other many examples.
> > >      
> > Is it? What the hell was the copyright on that code?
> >    
>
> AFAIK it was released under a BSD license by Caldera...
>
> Frank
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf

<quote>
January 23, 2002
Dear UNIX? enthusiasts,
Caldera International, Inc. hereby grants a fee free license that 
includes the rights use, modify and distribute this named
source code, including creating derived binary products created from the 
source code. The source code for which Caldera
International, Inc. grants rights are limited to the following UNIX 
Operating Systems that operate on the 16-Bit PDP-11
CPU and early versions of the 32-Bit UNIX Operating System, with 
specific exclusion of UNIX System III and UNIX
System V and successor operating systems:
32-bit 32V UNIX
16 bit UNIX Versions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
</quote>

-Tupshin

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