From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 20 17:54:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5F6F16A4B3 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:54:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A183D43FE5 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:54:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAFB62BD49 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:54:05 +1000 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 29A92518ED; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:24:04 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 10:24:04 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Timothy Luoma Message-ID: <20030921005404.GR16686@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <000001c37f81$94517160$6501a8c0@athlon> <20030920210753.GA38330@rot13.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AsKt9WDFSpw8OJmf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCO Group X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:54:08 -0000 --AsKt9WDFSpw8OJmf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday, 20 September 2003 at 17:16:59 -0400, Timothy Luoma wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:07:53 -0700, Kris Kennaway > wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 10:15:01AM -0400, Ryck wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> I've heard that SCO Group has an issue with Linux and is planning to sue >>> everyone who uses Linux because of the claim that it is using their >>> code. >>> Does Free BSD have anything to worry about regarding SCO Group and would >>> Free BSD users be harmless from SCO Group's litigation threats? >> >> Not likely. See the mailing list archives for further discussion. > > I tried to find some information and had no luck. I was also looking for > any conversation as to whether this situation with SCO was related at all > to the problems BSD had with... was it AT&T? .... some years back. The short answer: SCO's predecessors sued the BSDs for much the same issue over ten years ago. The matter was settled out of court. If you believe this view, then the BSDs have nothing more to fear. On the other hand, the way SCO is handling the current issue suggests that they have lost their minds. They have presented no proof for their claims (well, they produced some BSD code purported to be in Linux, and claimed that it was System V code; see http://www.lemis.com/grog/SCO/code-comparison.html#BPF for more details). As a result, there's no reason to believe that they wouldn't make similar claims about the BSDs. After all, the code in that example *is* in FreeBSD. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --AsKt9WDFSpw8OJmf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQE/bPasIubykFB6QiMRAjDEAJMFJzii9GOija/Jq4hEnzd2VHlKAJ9+IuTe UyMqwpcdXMa0EH3kHpWGqQ== =RFnA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AsKt9WDFSpw8OJmf--