RE: [leaf-devel] SCO suit

2003-10-13 Thread Peter Mueller
> 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 i

Re: [leaf-devel] SCO suit

2003-10-12 Thread Tony
What kind of reels are on the fishing poles? One wrong answer, and my lawyer gets a call. ;-) Somehow, I think we can overlook these serious transgretions. Tony Matt Schalit wrote: <> Does this sound silly? It does to me, the exact way their lawsuit sounds. \\ Initialize variables is pr

Re: [leaf-devel] SCO suit

2003-10-12 Thread Matt Schalit
Lynn Avants wrote: ... The possibility of similar action being taken with a LEAF variant is concievable, so I feel that any information that could avoid this situation would be worthy of being posted for any concerned parties. Well in the intrestest of full disclosure, I have a miniscule piece of

Re: [leaf-devel] SCO suit

2003-10-11 Thread Lynn Avants
On Saturday 11 October 2003 11:47 am, Ray Olszewski wrote: > 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

Re: [leaf-devel] SCO suit

2003-10-11 Thread K.-P. Kirchdörfer
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

Re: [leaf-devel] SCO suit

2003-10-11 Thread 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 th

Re: [leaf-devel] SCO suit

2003-10-11 Thread K.-P. Kirchdörfer
Am Samstag, 11. Oktober 2003 05:36 schrieb Lynn Avants: > 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 h

RE: [leaf-devel] SCO suit

2003-10-11 Thread Alex Rhomberg
> 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. The alleged violations concern SMP code and stuff such as JFS. This is normally not present in Bering firewalls. > SGI has also had a lawsuit filed by SC