Did the SCO Group plant UnixWare source in the Linux kernel?
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This C|Net news article says the SCO Group claims to have found many instances of copyrighted UnixWare source code being inserted verbatim into the Linux kernel:
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According to an article here:
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/05/01/2332226.shtml?tid=167&tid=99
SCO-Caldera Senior Vice President Chris Sontag explicitly says that the kernel.org kernel is *not* tainted, but that that other stuff that Red Hat and SuSE are including *is*.
Hmm. SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride says _exactly_ the opposite according to http://msnbc-cnet.com.com/2100-1016_3-999371.html :
"We're finding ... cases where there is line-by-line code in the Linux kernel that is matching up to our UnixWare code.
We're finding code that looks likes it's been obfuscated to make it look like it wasn't UnixWare code -- but it was."
Chris Sontag should get his story straight with his boss before he opens his mouth to the press.
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Chris Sontag should get his story straight with his boss before he opens his mouth to the press.
I think the key is the "kernel.org kernel" part. Red Hat and SuSE both include a bunch of additional patches to the "official" kernel.
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