Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:22:46 +0100 From: Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@piwebs.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCO goes after BSD? Message-ID: <200311201822.48804.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> In-Reply-To: <3FBCB95B.44193DF2@mindspring.com> References: <XFMail.20031119135153.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <3FBCB95B.44193DF2@mindspring.com>
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--Boundary-02=_ohPv/Z+BtArYnhx Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline There's more information on this at Enterprise Linux: http://www.enterprise-linux-it.com/perl/story/22719.html Seems like we will have to wait until at least 2004 to hear what SCO has to= =20 say :). =2D-Start relevant quotes-- Second, SCO has said it will broaden its copyright protection efforts to=20 include "copyrighted code included in the 1994 settlement between Unix=20 Systems Laboratories and Berkeley Software Design (BSD)." SCO has said it=20 does not expect to file any BSD-related lawsuits until the first half of=20 2004. (...) BSD Gets Involved=20 Enlarging the scope of its legal battle to include BSD, SCO says it now is= =20 comparing code awarded in a 1994 settlement involving that company.=20 "As part of the settlement agreement that took place between BSD and AT&T=20 (NYSE: T) and Novell, there were certain files that had to have the=20 copyright attribution put back in," Stowell said.=20 "Copyright attribution has been stripped away from certain code, and we're= =20 seeing that same situation taking place with Linux with those same exact BS= D=20 files," he said. "Those files have gone back into Linux, and the copyright= =20 attribution has been stripped away." Those BSD files must have their=20 copyright attribution restored, Stowell said.=20 Additionally, "there were Unix System V files within BSD that were not=20 supposed to be there, and those files had to be removed from BSD," he said.= =20 "And we're claiming those files that were supposed to have been removed fro= m=20 BSD have made their way into Linux."=20 "Some of the BSD code likely made its way into Linux," said Aberdeen Group= =20 analyst Bill Claybrook, "and probably -- almost assuredly -- made its way=20 into [Unix] System V." However, he told NewsFactor, "You couldn't argue tha= t=20 just because [BSD] files went into System V, it was derived code." =2D-end quotes-- Arjan --Boundary-02=_ohPv/Z+BtArYnhx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/vPho3Ym57eNCXiERAjPsAJ4msOTMOXD4iEwK3jPLVSjV5ZAFGACfQVvX ETIvLvHqkGLyENiHlr35MvI= =KLnZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_ohPv/Z+BtArYnhx--
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