Am Samstag, 11. Oktober 2003 18:47 schrieb Ray Olszewski: > At 10:36 PM 10/10/2003 -0500, Lynn Avants wrote: > >For those who may or may not be following the SCO suit against > >IBM for Linux infringement on UNIX code, this may prove to > >be of interest. > > > >SGI has also had a lawsuit filed by SCO alledging similar > >source code infringements as what has been filed in the > >IBM case. SGI not only compared their own code against > >UNIXware, but also several Linux kernels. All likely > >violations that were found in 2.4.x kernels appear to have > >been removed in the 2.4.22 kernel source. > > > >It might be a good idea to update all LEAF images running > >2.4 kernels to a 2.4.22 or later kernel to avoid any possible > >legal implications for commercial use in the US. The 2.2.x kernels > >appear to have clean code. It seems likely that many of the > >possible violations that were found in the 2.4.x kernels may have > >been contributed by SCO/Caldera employee(s). > > The legal issues in the SCO suit are sufficiently obscure that I would > hesitate to offer any substantive opinions about them here. I do have > opinions about them, like most of us, but they are decidedly non-expert, > suitable perhaps for dinner table chitchat but not for giving people > serious advice about how to run their businesses. > > It does seem to me, though, that if the issue is the suitability of LEAF > for "commercial use in the US", we might quite reasonably leave the work > Lynn suggests to people interested in such uses, not the mix of US-based > hobbyists and European developers who now maintain, improve, and support > LEAF.
As soon as all patches needed to compile a LEAF kernel 2.4.22 are available, you'll see efforts to make it work. kp ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
