From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 20 09:22:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 996D916A4CE for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:22:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from thuis.piwebs.com (217-19-20-186.dsl.cambrium.nl [217.19.20.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6372643FDD for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 09:22:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from avleeuwen@piwebs.com) Received: (qmail 69153 invoked by uid 85); 20 Nov 2003 17:23:10 -0000 Received: from avleeuwen@piwebs.com by thuis.piwebs.com by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20rc1 (uvscan: v4.2.40/v4288. Clear:RC:1:. Processed in 1.162823 secs); 20 Nov 2003 17:23:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 192.168.0.110) (192.168.0.110) by 0 with SMTP; 20 Nov 2003 17:23:08 -0000 From: Arjan van Leeuwen To: Terry Lambert , John Baldwin Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:22:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <3FBCB95B.44193DF2@mindspring.com> In-Reply-To: <3FBCB95B.44193DF2@mindspring.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_ohPv/Z+BtArYnhx"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200311201822.48804.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> cc: Michal Pasternak cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCO goes after BSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:22:57 -0000 --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--