Well said.
We as the open source community have the responsibility to protect ourselves
from anything like this happening in the future.
Bradley
> -----Original Message-----
> From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of Rock
> Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:06 AM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: [SLUG] Unix code disclaimer, and this SCO debacle
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> I don't comment often but this issue appears to be a consequence of the
> openness of the open source community itself, and as such begs for a
> resolution.
> I don't claim to know how patches or improvements are submitted by
> independent kernel programmers but it seems that some sort of disclaimer
> from them needs to be required before changes are incorporated into the
> Linux kernel. What if some programmer incorporates Unix code into their
> patch and that is incorporated into the kernel? What then? How would
> anyone know. Without a disclaimer stating that "no Unix code has been
> used", we have no way of assuring the open source community that the
> Linux kernel is really free of Unix code.
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> I don't think that is asking too much of the programmers and would be
> easy to require before submitting code to be incorporated into the
> kernel.
>
> Michael C. Rock
> Systems Analyst
> Registered Linux User # 287973
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> "The time has come the walrus said to speak of many things,,,"
> "Christians give up what they cannot keep to gain what they cannot lose"
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