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The Score is IBM - 700,000 / SCO - 326

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-some-impressive-evidence dept.

The Peanut Gallery writes "After years of litigation to discover what, exactly, SCO was suing about, IBM has finally discovered that SCO's 'mountain of code' is only 326 scattered lines. Worse, most of what is allegedly infringing are comments and simple header files (like errno.h). These probably aren't copyrightable for being unoriginal and dictated by externalities and aren't owned by SCO in any event. Above and beyond that, IBM has at least five separate licenses for these elements, including the GPL, even if SCO actually owned those lines of code. In contrast IBM is able to point out 700,000 lines of code, which they have properly registered copyrights for, which SCO is infringing upon if the Court rules that it repudiated the GPL."

2 of 316 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Linus says he wrote errno.h himself by Salsaman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Don't forget Linus had the Minix code to refer to when starting Linux. SCO claimed that this was one way Linux was an illegal derivative of Unix. However, as was pointed out by IBM and others, a simple list of #defines cannot be copyrighted.

  2. Search results by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Google
    ["It doesn't matter if it is only"] returned 45 results.

    Google
    ["Even a simple one"] returns 15400

    Google
    ["is vindication enough for me"] returns 6 results.

    I accuse you sir of copyright violation! Even if those are only fragments of your text. It doesn't matter if it is only a few lines, or one, even a simple one is vindication enough for me.