Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:00:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@drdos.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout
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On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:

> Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> SCO Just sent over a list of contaminated files with a "bill of health" 
> certification for Linux that if we remove the identified files
> they will certify our Linux distribution as clean. They are also sending out 
> some form of statement that we are
> not affiliated with them, and that we are competitors of SCO since we use 
> Linux. They claim the following and I have
> a listing of files, lines numbers, etc. they told us we must remove in order 
> for our Linux appliances to be considered
> "clean." This info might be useful to others. They have a cert program to 
> remove the areas.
>
> Here it is. I can get the line numbers of the file and their names if anyone 
> needs it, but the list is very big.
>
> RCU
> 46 files
> 109,688 lines
>
> NUMA
> 101 files
> 56,587 lines
>
> JFS
> 44 files
> 32,224 lines
>
> XFS
> 173 Files
> 119,130 lines
>
> SMP
> 1,185 files
> 829,393 lines
>
> Total files/lines they [allege] contains SCO source code
> 1,549 files
> 1,147,022 lines
>
> If you guys want the specific line numbers and filenames, I will ask them to 
> post the specific filenames/line numbers they claim
> are theirs. They stated we can ship Linux with fear of being sued if we 
> comply with their Linux Certification Program.
>

You can ship Linux without fear of being sued anyway.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.9 on an i686 machine (5537.79 GrumpyMips).
                  98.36% of all statistics are fiction.
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