SCO after BSD settlement
Greg 'groggy' Lehey
grog at lemis.com
Sat Nov 22 16:17:31 PST 2003
On Saturday, 22 November 2003 at 8:37:51 +0100, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> -On [20031122 03:52], Gary Thorpe (gathorpe79 at xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>> By the way, how would Linux/BSD zealots feel if SCO ripped out parts of
>> Linux/BSD and put it into SVRx and relicensed it and claimed it as their
>> own? If, _if_ this is what happened except with the players reversed
>> there is certainly nothing defensible about it.
>
> Mootpoint. Microsoft already did this to BSD code. We allow it. :)
More to the point, large parts of System V came from Berkeley. This
is no secret. The only issue is the license.
Greg
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