SCO claims code violations in Linux

[Charles Curley]

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On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 04:03:33PM -0600, Weston Cerny wrote:
> i've been thinking about this.  Doesn't SCO own/merged with Caldera?  Has=
n't
> Caldera been putting this out as opensource.  So hasn't SCO released this
> opensource.
> -weston

Yes and no.

Caldera bought SCO (nee Santa Cruz Operation), then changed its name
to SCO. However, they have the rights to the word Unix and the source
code to it because they bought them from someone else (Novell?). The
original SCO, as far as I can recall, was a Unix licensee only.

SCO Version 1.0 did own, I believe, the rights to Microsoft's one-time
effort at a Unix work-alike, called Xenix.

No-one, as far as I know, has released the source to Unix. And in any
case, the code in question might have been copied before SCO released
the code.

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