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Usenix President - Linux Needs Better Paper Trail

Posted by simoniker on from the follow-the-shredded-lawsuits dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Usenix Association president Marshall Kirk McKusick is a veteran of BSD's intellectual property scuffle with AT&T in the 1990s, and he's got some thoughts and advice for the keepers of the Linux kernel going forward, commenting: 'There isn't a well-documented ownership trail with Linux. So, they have opened themselves up to a swamp of 'he said-she said' about where code came from'."

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  1. Maybe he should read SlashDot by Pedrito · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Maybe Mr. McKusick should have read this earlier post about how Linus is already on top of it. Can someone mark this story as redundant?

  2. Re:paper trail? by thenextpresident · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "Oddly enough, all of those thousand geeks could tell you what a scroll is."

    Well, of course. Your mage writes spells onto scrolls, or finds them. I mean, what else would a scroll be?

    BTW, What the hell is paper anyways? Is it anything like papyrus?

    --
    Jason Lotito
  3. What verification mechanisms are there? by asmellysock · · Score: 1, Redundant

    When someone submits a potential change to Linux, what mechanisms are in place to verify that the submission is not copyrighted material? Also, what mechanisms are there to eliminate a copyright infringement once one is discovered?