[CLUE-Talk] SCO providing Linux licenses

[Jef Barnhart]

With the release of 7.1.2(?) they had the "Linux personality" or some
such as that. The Idea was to run linux compiled code on Unixware. There
was an article some where a SCO developer was quoted as saying the had
done just wholelsale cut and past to get the to work.

Jef

On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 06:37, Dennis J Perkins wrote:
> At first I thought they were releasing Linux again.  Now I'm not sure.  It 
> looks like they are releasing a version of Unix that can run Linux binaries 
> natively.  How much Linux code was taken to do this?  The API's are probably 
> often similar, but the actual binary interface is different.
> 
> If they are releasing Caldera Linux without the source, then they are violating 
> the GNU tools, X, GNOME, etc.
> 
> I don't know if you can say it is a bold move to do this before a court has 
> ruled in SCO's favor.  It is certainly risky, because SCO can probably be 
> considered to be violating the GPL in the meantime.