[Linux-aus] Did SCO Violate the GPL?
Leon Brooks
leon at cyberknights.com.au
Wed Jun 11 09:21:02 UTC 2003
echo -e "2 cat\n1 pigeon\n3 pigeon" | sort
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1123176,00.asp
The source, who has seen both the Unix System V source code and
the Linux source code and who assisted with a SCO project to
bring the two kernels closer together, [...] "During that project
we often came across sections of code that looked very similar,
in fact we wondered why even variable names were identical. It
looked very much like both codes had the same origin, but that
was good as the implementation of 95 percent of all Linux system
calls on the Unix kernel turned out to be literally 'one-liners'"
Only a handful of system calls-socketcall, ipc and clone-were
fairly difficult to implement as they involved the obvious
differentiators between Linux and Unix: networking, inter-process
communication and kernel threads
Cheers; Leon
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