[CLUE-Talk] SCO providing Linux licenses

[Dennis J Perkins]

I guess that doesn't count, since all "modern operating systems" are derived 
from Unix, according to McBride.


> 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.
> 
> 
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