[TUHS] Copyright notices in Edition 5, removed in Edition 6
Warren Toomey
wkt at tuhs.org
Wed Dec 24 16:08:46 AEST 2003
On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 01:05:36AM -0500, Larry J. Blunk wrote:
> In case you haven't guessed, I'm thinking about the various include
> files in the Linux kernel that SCO has claimed infringes on their
> copyrights. Many of the defines and comments seem to have originated
> in Unix Edition 7 and earlier. For example,
>
> errno.h - http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/Nsys/sys/nsys/user.h.html
> and http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V5/usr/source/s4/errlst.c.html
which are all under a BSD license provided by Caldera, see
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf
So technically, yes someone owns the copyright on these files, but
they permit the content of the files to be placed in other programs
or kernels.
Warren
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