On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Lionel Dyck wrote: > http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1017965.html?tag=fd_top > > SCO suit now seeks $3 billion from IBM > > By Stephen Shankland > Staff Writer, CNET News.com > June 16, 2003, 9:20 PM PT > > SCO Group has upped the ante in an amendment to its suit against IBM, > seeking more than $3 billion in damages for alleged copying of proprietary > Unix intellectual property into Linux. > > .... > > They are now getting greedy and annoying.
According to SCO, the Linux kernel is GPL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ rpm -qip /home/summer/indexes/ftp.planetmirror.com/raid/11/openlinux/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Workstation/CSU-2002-003.0/RPMS/linux-kernel-binary-2.4.13-19D.i386.rpm Name : linux-kernel-binary Relocations: (not relocateable) Version : 2.4.13 Vendor: Caldera International, Inc. Release : 19D Build Date: Mon Oct 14 14:50:13 2002 Install date: (not installed) Build Host: localhost Group : System/Kernel Source RPM: linux-2.4.13-19D.src.rpm Size : 32211017 License: GPL Packager : Bishop Clark (LC957) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.kernel.org/ Summary : Linux kernel images and loadable modules. Description : This package contains Linux kernel images and loadable modules. This means that SCO is required to distribute the source code for the kernel binaries (S3 of the GPL). Am I blind, or is it not there? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ lftp ftp.sco.com lftp ftp.sco.com:~> cd /pub dir`/pub' [Connecting...] cd ok, cwd=/pub lftp ftp.sco.com:/pub> dir drwxrwxr-x 3 ftp ftp 4096 May 27 17:26 LTP drwxrwxr-x 5 ftp ftp 4096 May 16 20:05 OpenLinux3.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 ftp ftp 13 Jan 30 2002 OpenLinux3.1.1 -> OpenLinux311/ drwxrwxr-x 6 ftp ftp 4096 May 16 20:05 OpenLinux311 -rw--w-r-- 1 ftp ftp 809 May 16 20:08 README -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 11 Jul 3 2001 du-s drwxrwxr-x 3 ftp ftp 4096 May 27 17:26 eDesktop drwxrwxr-x 4 ftp ftp 4096 May 27 17:26 eServer drwxrwxr-x 2 ftp ftp 4096 Jun 2 2001 info -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 4884219 Jul 3 2001 ls-lR -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp 608975 Jul 3 2001 ls-lR.gz drwxrwxr-x 3 ftp ftp 4096 Feb 10 15:01 office drwxrwxr-x 24 ftp ftp 8192 May 19 19:22 openserver5 drwxrwxr-x 5 ftp ftp 4096 Dec 18 2001 opensource drwxrwxr-x 4 ftp ftp 4096 Feb 7 17:14 openunix8 drwxrwxr-x 2 ftp ftp 4096 Jun 2 2001 pgp-keys drwxrwxr-x 4 ftp ftp 4096 Apr 8 16:16 scolinux drwxrwxr-x 8 ftp ftp 12288 Jun 5 2002 security drwxrwxr-x 10 ftp ftp 16384 Apr 21 17:52 unixware7 drwxrwxr-x 13 ftp ftp 4096 Jul 22 2002 updates drwxrwxr-x 3 ftp ftp 4096 Jan 4 2002 volution lftp ftp.sco.com:/pub> cd OpenLinux3.1 cd ok, cwd=/pub/OpenLinux3.1 lftp ftp.sco.com:/pub/OpenLinux3.1> dir drwxrwxr-x 2 ftp ftp 24576 May 16 20:03 SRPMS drwxrwxr-x 2 ftp ftp 4096 May 16 20:04 Server drwxrwxr-x 2 ftp ftp 4096 May 16 20:04 Workstation lftp ftp.sco.com:/pub/OpenLinux3.1> cd Workstation cd ok, cwd=/pub/OpenLinux3.1/Workstation lftp ftp.sco.com:/pub/OpenLinux3.1/Workstation> cd SRPMS/ cd ok, cwd=/pub/OpenLinux3.1/Workstation/SRPMS lftp ftp.sco.com:/pub/OpenLinux3.1/Workstation/SRPMS> dir lin* lftp ftp.sco.com:/pub/OpenLinux3.1/Workstation/SRPMS> dir *ke* -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 14025 Jun 22 2001 OpenLinux-keys-2.4-4.src.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 363603 Jun 22 2001 automake-1.4-4.src.rpm -r--rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 505977 Jun 22 2001 jikes-1.06-7.src.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 2509251 Jun 22 2001 kermit-7.0.197-3.src.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 616165 Jun 22 2001 kernel-addon-2.4.2-3D.src.rpm -r--rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 616180 Jun 22 2001 kernel-addon-2.4.2-3S.src.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 1036015 Jun 22 2001 make-3.79.1-3.src.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 491075 Jun 22 2001 soundtracker-0.6.2-2.src.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 1 ftp ftp 49196 Jun 22 2001 tmake-1.6-4.src.rpm lftp ftp.sco.com:/pub/OpenLinux3.1/Workstation/SRPMS> I would have thought that if SCO says the Kernel is GPL, that must be so for its contributions. I wouldn't trust its opinion wrt other's code, but surely SCO speaks with authority about its own. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
