| Answering SCO Bit by Bit - Binutils in UnixWare and OpenServer Too |
[Dec. 20th, 2009|01:43 pm] |
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091220131348153 I thought you'd find the slides from a talk given at SCOforum 2004 of interest, because they show that SCO also distributed, under the GPL, binutils in UnixWare and OpenServer. The talk was titled, "Open Source Components in SCO OpenServer and SCO UnixWare", and the credits list Ron Record at SCO engineering, who we've written about before on Groklaw in this context. One of the talk's slides lists the binutils package in OpenServer as OpenServer gnutools package, which means they had to know, I think, where it came from and that it is GPL'd, and there is a list of ftp sites to get the package. And indeed they knew: 3. The programs in this supplement are provided here free of charge in
accordance with the authors' licensing policies.
4. The source code for all of these packages is freely available, although
not as part of this supplement. If you wish to see the source code,
please download the original packages from the Internet. The source
code for the collection as it was compiled will be made available on
the SCO ftp site.
Actually, SCO's right hand did not know what it's left hand was doing, and they did list all the source available here, including gnutools. I made screenshots at the time, and I note that the talk's slides are still listed on Google as being available here on SCO's website. |
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| Answering SCO Bit by Bit - more a.out.h and errno.h and elf.h, this time in OpenLinux 1.3 |
[Dec. 19th, 2009|11:24 am] |
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091218184305373 Groklaw member valerio checked the contents of Caldera Systems OpenLinux 1.3, a CD from 1998, and you'll never guess what he found. Yes, friends, the CD contains, in the archive file col/install/RPMS/linux-kernel-include-2.0.35-1.i386.rpm, two files SCO claims are infringing if placed in Linux:
/include/linux/a.out.h
and
/ include/asm-i386/errno.h This is the
second time we've caught SCO/Caldera distributing these two files in a Caldera distribution under the GPL, despite its claim that it never authorized them to be in Linux or under the GPL. The first was copyrighted 2000, two years before this instance valerio found. What? Inadvertent twice? As you will see, they put the files there themselves. In Linux. Under the GPL. And now they want to sue people using Linux because they are in there. |
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| Answering SCO Bit by Bit - Caldera's GPL Fingerprints All Over the Place - Updated |
[Dec. 18th, 2009|06:46 pm] |
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091216040710378 Remember when SCO said it never released any of its own code under the GPL? Methinks it spoke with forked tongue.
I have now had an opportunity to look at files in another Caldera Linux distribution, Caldera OpenLinux 2.3-16, and I see Caldera's GPL fingerprints all over the place, much as I discovered using emacs to open up source files in OpenLinux eServer 2.3 the other day. And Caldera did write code itself that it released under the GPL. It also tweaked GPL'd packages and distributed with its own branding under the GPL. And it can't seem to stop distributing binutils under the GPL, while claiming in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit that it never did so. |
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