From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:08:46 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Copyright notices in Edition 5, removed in Edition 6 In-Reply-To: <20031224060536.GA599@upstairs.Domain> References: <20031224052538.GE512@upstairs.Domain> <20031223.223127.122029141.imp@bsdimp.com> <20031224060536.GA599@upstairs.Domain> Message-ID: <20031224060846.GA40195@minnie.tuhs.org> 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