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SCO Claims Linux Lifted ELF
fymidos writes "SCO has finally spoken. According to this linuxworld article, they claim that linux illegally uses the ELF binary format, the JFS filesystem, the init code and some more 'copyrighted Unix header and interfaces'. Finally SCO makes its move. The JFS part was expected of course, but according to the article, as far as the ELF format is concerned 'the Tool Interface Standard Committee (TISC) came up with a ELF 1.2 standard' and 'granted users a "non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license" to the stuff'. Oh, and of course 'both Novell and the old SCO - as well as Microsoft, IBM and Intel - were on the committee'."
This directed at SCO: RTFA!
(TIS specification doc for ELF)
Remember the TIS comittee? Probably not, as SCO never was part of it. Santa Cruz Operation (oldSCO) was, however, as well was Novell.
Page 2, paragraph 1:
The TIS Committee grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to use the information disclosed in this Specification to make your software TIS-compliant; no other license, express or implied, is granted or intended hereby.
Why are you laughing? Do you know if their claims have merit,
Indeed I do. Perfect example is Mr. Sontag's statement that "everyone is infringing on SCO's ELF copyrights." Mr. Sontag apparently does not understand what a copyright is. (Hint: It's not like a patent.) While I'm not a lawyer, I did an analysis here.
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However, it's not a laughing matter, solely because the merits will be determined by lawyers and judges - not anyone with a vaguely technical background. Or much common sense...
Granted, but it *is* a matter of law. Mr. Sontag's assertion that the Unix copyright somehow gives them patent protection, it completely and utterly ridiculous. So far the judge has damn near booted SCO out of court. I expect he'll finish the job after he understands what SCO is trying to propose here.
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My guess is that Santa Claus himself is somehow behind this latest SCO claim
SCO - the Santa Claus Operation?
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I've been informed that OpenBSD in fact does use ELF now. Oh well, so much for that.
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SCO: Santa Claus Organisation. I thought everyone knew that....
I think you really mangled what SCO is trying to say: "All your ELF are belong to us!"
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10);'