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Answering SCO Bit by Bit - more a.out.h and errno.h and elf.h, this time in OpenLinux 1.3

By Pamela Jones et al.

Groklaw member valerio checked the contents of Caldera Systems OpenLinux 1.3, a CD from 1998, and you'll never guess what he found. Yes, friends, the CD contains, in the archive file col/install/RPMS/linux-kernel-include-2.0.35-1.i386.rpm, two files SCO claims are infringing if placed in Linux:

/include/linux/a.out.h

and

/ include/asm-i386/errno.h

This is the second time we've caught SCO/Caldera distributing these two files in a Caldera distribution under the GPL, despite its claim that it never authorized them to be in Linux or under the GPL. The first was copyrighted 2000, two years before this instance valerio found. What? Inadvertent twice? As you will see, they put the files there themselves. In Linux. Under the GPL. And now they want to sue people using Linux because they are in there.

Full post as published by Groklaw on December 19, 2009 (boomark / email).