SCO releases a list of files
At long last, SCO have released a list of the Linux source files they claim infringe on their copyrights and/or proprietary information.
Intial analysis seems to show they just grepped for anything with the word "SMP". In particular, they think include/asm-m68k/spinlock.h infringes. The entire file is:
#ifndef __M68K_SPINLOCK_H #define __M68K_SPINLOCK_H #error "m68k doesn't do SMP yet" #endif
Jon Corbet writes:
The other amusing thing is that they listed the files in a different form:
include.asm-m68k.spinlock.h
People finally figured it out - they needed to flatten the entire kernel directory hierarchy in order to be able to grep through it. It seems that SCO's products, those luxury cars of operating systems, lack a recursive grep...
I can just imagine some law intern somewhere renaming all those files, one by one.
posted Fri 14 Nov 2003 in /issues/sco-vs-linux | link
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