[PLUG] Aduva's Tool Removes SCO Code

[Dave Clemans]

mike wrote:
> so true.  i am on the Plan9 list and the orig writers of unix just laugh 
> at SCO and the whole thing.  They wrote Unix and know who really owns it 
> although they also say it is too broken to fix.
> 

Actually, all that Aduva is announcing is that if and when a piece of 
code is judged infringing, shortly thereafter they will release a tool 
that will find any instances of that code and replace it...

It's not likely though that they will ever have to do that...

The entire history of Unix while it was at Bell Labs / AT&T was that 
they only did the "interesting" or "really needed" parts.  If they 
needed something; a device driver; some kernel functionality; some user 
command functionality, etc. that existed in the general Unix community, 
they just used that code.  The people in the general Unix community 
didn't cede all rights to Bell / AT&T then; they just let them use a 
copy.  In particular, a lot of code was adopted from UC Berkeley.  This 
is the fundamental reason why the USL effectively lost their law suit 
against UC Berkeley.

The general sharing of code within a community without explicit 
licensing, copyright, etc. worries was very prevalent in the years I was 
more explictly involved with actual Unix development and support (at 
UCLA, SDC and Tektronix).

dgc