Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261292AbTEBEQk (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 00:16:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261294AbTEBEQk (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 00:16:40 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:18103 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261292AbTEBEQi (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 00:16:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3EB1F405.3050000@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 00:28:53 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Spirit of Open Source Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Did the SCO Group plant UnixWare source in the Linux kernel? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1698 Lines: 46 The Spirit of Open Source wrote: > This C|Net news article says the SCO Group claims to have found many instances > of copyrighted UnixWare source code being inserted verbatim into the Linux > kernel: According to an article here: http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/01/2332226.shtml?tid=167&tid=99 SCO-Caldera Senior Vice President Chris Sontag explicitly says that the kernel.org kernel is *not* tainted, but that that other stuff that Red Hat and SuSE are including *is*. Quote from the interview: "Chris Sontag: We're not talking about the Linux kernel that Linus and others have helped develop. We're talking about what's on the periphery of the Linux kernel." He doesn't specify exactly what he's talking about, but he makes an interesting claim: "Chris Sontag: We are using objective third parties to do comparisons of our UNIX System V [SCO-owned Unix] source code and Red Hat as an example. We are coming across many instances where our proprietary software has simply been copied and pasted or changed in order to hide the origin of our System V code in Red Hat. This is the kind of thing that we will need to address with many Linux distribution companies at some point." Chris -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/