Subject: BREAKING NEWS - "Offending Code" Specified (LinuxWorld)(Printview)
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<div class=3D"MegaBlk">BREAKING NEWS - "Offending Code" Specified</div>
December 22, 2003, http://www.linuxworld.com/story/38303.htm
<blockquote><b>Summary</b><br>On December 19, in a letter reproduced here=
, SCO named the files that it contends breach its IP. The next move is ex=
pected to come this week from the Linux kernel developers.</blockquote>
<img src=3D"/images/el_divsquare.gif" width=3D"300" height=3D"4" vspace=3D=
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<b>By <A HREF=3D"mailto:lwmeditors@sys-con.com">LinuxWorld News Desk</A>&=
nbsp;</b><BR>
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<P>The following posting, just made in <A href=3D"http://www.linuxwor=
ld.com/story/38272_f.htm">another thread</A> here at LinuxWorld, is a cro=
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<P align=3Dcenter><EM>This is a copy of SCO's December 19 copyright lette=
r, as received from Avi Dines via Don Marti.</EM> =
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<P>December 19, 2003 =
<P>
<P><BR>Re: The SCO Group, Inc. (=93SCO=94) =
<P>Dear Unix Licensee, =
<P>In May 2003, SCO warned about enterprise use of the Linux operating sy=
stem in violation of its intellectual property rights in UNIX technology.=
Without exhausting or explaining all potential claims, this letter addre=
sses one specific area in which certain versions of Linux violate SCO's r=
ights in UNIX. =
<P>In this letter we are identifying a portion of our copyright protected=
code that has been incorporated into Linux without our authorization. Al=
so, our copyright management information has been removed from these file=
s. =
<P>
<P>These facts support our position that the use of the Linux operating s=
ystem in a commercial setting violates our rights under the United States=
Copyright Act, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. We are no=
tifying you of these facts so you can take steps to discontinue these vio=
lations. We believe these violations are serious, and we will take approp=
riate actions to protect our rights. No one may use our copyrighted code =
except as authorized by us. The details of our position are set forth bel=
ow. Once you have reviewed our position, we will be happy to further disc=
uss your options and work with you to remedy this problem. =
<P>Certain copyrighted application binary interfaces (=93ABI Code=94) hav=
e been copied verbatim from our copyrighted UNIX code base and contribute=
d to Linux for distribution under the General Public License (=93GPL=94) =
without proper authorization and without copyright attribution. While som=
e application programming interfaces (=93API Code=94) have been made avai=
lable over the years through POSIX and other open standards, the UNIX ABI=
Code has only been made available under copyright restrictions. AT&T=
made these binary interfaces available in order to support application d=
evelopment to UNIX operating systems and to assist UNIX licensees in the =
development process. The UNIX ABIs were never intended or authorized for =
unrestricted use or distribution under the GPL in Linux. As the copyright=
holder, SCO has never granted such permission. Nevertheless, many of the=
ABIs contained in Linux, and improperly distributed under the GPL, are d=
irect copies of our UNIX copyrighted software code. =
<P>Any part of any Linux file that includes the copyrighted binary interf=
ace code must be removed. Files in Linux version 2.4.21 and other version=
s that incorporate the copyrighted binary interfaces include: =
<P>
<P>include/asm-alpha/errno.h =
<P>include/asm-arm/errno.h =
<P>include/asm-cris/errno.h =
<P>include/asm-i386/errno.h =
<P>include/asm-ia64/errno.h =
<P>include/asm-m68k/errno.h =
<P>include/asm-mips/errno.h =
<P>include/asm-mips64/errno.h =
<P>include/asm-parisc/errno.h =
<P>include/asm-ppc/errno.h =
<P>include/asm-ppc64/errno.h =
<P>include/asm-s390/errno.h =
<P>include/asm-s390x/errno.h =
<P>include/asm-sh/errno.h =
<P>include/asm-sparc/errno.h =
<P>include/asm-sparc64/errno.h =
<P>include/asm-x86_64/errno.h =
<P>include/asm-alpha/signal.h =
<P>include/asm-arm/signal.h =
<P>include/asm-cris/signal.h =
<P>include/asm-i386/signal.h =
<P>include/asm-ia64/signal.h =
<P>include/asm-m68k/signal.h =
<P>include/asm-mips/signal.h =
<P>include/asm-mips64/signal.h =
<P>include/asm-parisc/signal.h =
<P>include/asm-ppc/signal.h =
<P>include/asm-ppc64/signal.h =
<P>include/asm-s390/signal.h =
<P>include/asm-s390x/signal.h =
<P>include/asm-sh/signal.h =
<P>include/asm-sparc/signal.h =
<P>include/asm-sparc64/signal.h =
<P>include/asm-x86_64/signal.h =
<P>include/linux/stat.h =
<P>include/linux/ctype.h =
<P>lib/ctype.c <BR>include/asm-alpha/ioctl.h =
<P>include/asm-alpha/ioctls.h =
<P>include/asm-arm/ioctl.h =
<P>include/asm-cris/ioctl.h =
<P>include/asm-i386/ioctl.h =
<P>include/asm-ia64/ioctl.h =
<P>include/asm-m68k/ioctl.h =
<P>include/asm-mips/ioctl.h =
<P>include/asm-mips64/ioctl.h =
<P>include/asm-mips64/ioctls.h =
<P>include/asm-parisc/ioctl.h =
<P>include/asm-parisc/ioctls.h =
<P>include/asm-ppc/ioctl.h =
<P>include/asm-ppc/ioctls.h =
<P>include/asm-ppc64/ioctl.h =
<P>include/asm-ppc64/ioctls.h =
<P>include/asm-s390/ioctl.h =
<P>include/asm-s390x/ioctl.h =
<P>include/asm-sh/ioctl.h =
<P>include/asm-sh/ioctls.h =
<P>include/asm-sparc/ioctl.h =
<P>include/asm-sparc/ioctls.h =
<P>include/asm-sparc64/ioctl.h =
<P>include/asm-sparc64/ioctls.h =
<P>include/asm-x86_64/ioctl.h =
<P>include/linux/ipc.h =
<P>include/linux/acct.h =
<P>include/asm-sparc/a.out.h =
<P>include/linux/a.out.h =
<P>arch/mips/boot/ecoff.h =
<P>include/asm-sparc/bsderrno.h =
<P>include/asm-sparc/solerrno.h =
<P>include/asm-sparc64/bsderrno.h =
<P>include/asm-sparc64/solerrno.h</P></BLOCKQUOTE><P></td></tr></table>
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