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Linux Kernel Code May Have Been in SCO UnixWare

Posted by timothy on from the hard-to-say-sonny-hard-to-say dept.

Random BedHead Ed writes "Groklaw has some interesting new information online. In an entry today, PJ has posted the Deposition of Erik W. Hughes (PDF), a SCO employee. Hughes' 2004 testimony reveals that the Linux Kernel Personality (LKP) of UnixWare somehow used kernel code. Exactly how it was used is not clear. UnixWare was released under a proprietary license, but the General Public License under which Linux is distributed requires derivative works to use the same license. As PJ says, it's "now apparent why SCO tried to say the GPL is unconstitutional" back in 2003."

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  1. All I gotta say about this, today is... by DaedalusHKX · · Score: 0, Redundant

    AAHAHAHAHAHHA.

    About time.

    I've been suspecting this, without evidence of course, since the case started.

    Give it up to the shrewd chess players... which SCO are not.

    --
    " What luck for rulers that men do not think" - Adolf Hitler
  2. Hahaha by freeman123 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    SCO, you make me laugh. You claim others of stealing from you, and then you steal from others. How ironic. Hypocrites.

  3. Re:Wait . . wait . . what? by buckhead_buddy · · Score: 0, Redundant
    TheMoodyKid wrote:
    "You've got UnixWare in my Linux!"
    "And you've got Linux in my UnixWare!"
    For those not familiar with 70's advertising slogans, that was the moniker of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups except that it used Chocolate instead of UnixWare and Peanut Butter instead of Linux. And instead of ending with a fist fight or litigation, the commercials always showed the two klutzes trying the choco-nut concoction and saying (in unison no less) that they're great together.

    Of course, the GPL has been in these sorts of showdowns before and has talked down some very litigious oponnents (e.g. Steve Jobs' & NeXT).

    Of course maybe this whole thing is a trap to get GPL Linux programmers to subpoena the code and henceforth be "contaminated" in the eyes of the law whether or not they discover any stolen code.

  4. in other words.. by xWastedMindx · · Score: 0, Redundant

    all your code are belong to us.