Re: [Linux-streams] LiS in the SCO vs. IBM case?

[Francois-Xavier KOWALSKI]

Dave Grothe wrote: Caldera never hosted LiS in the sense of taking on any maintenance responsibility for it.  They included it on their distribution CDROM for awhile.  It was once hosted on a machine in Spain (I think) prior to my taking it over.  Once I took over it has always been hosted at Gcom. As far as I know LiS is original work from man pages, the SVR4 STREAMS Programmers Guide and The Magic Garden.  Most of it was written before I started working on it.  The lion's share of my initial work on LiS was testing, debugging and portability.  All the SMP work was mine and bears no resemblance to the brain-dead approach to SMP that UnixWare SVR4 STREAMS uses.  Others have made contributions that seem fairly obviously to be original work -- fifos, fattach, ldl driver, inet driver, etc. Thanks for your comments & comments from other contributors & users. Wrapping up, the claim actual content seems to be reduced "this API is mine". IANAL (:-) so I will check with my lawyers whether this approach can be enforced or not. br. -- Francois-Xavier "FiX" KOWALSKI /_ __ Tel:+33 (0)4 76 14 63 27 OpenCall Business Unit -- OCBU / //_/ Fax:+33 (0)4 76 14 14 88 Signalling Products Engineering / http://www.hp.com/go/opencall i n v e n t