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Answering SCO Bit by Bit - Binutils in UnixWare and OpenServer Too - Updated

By Pamela Jones et al.

I thought you'd find the slides from a talk given at SCOforum 2004 of interest, because they show that SCO also distributed, under the GPL, binutils in UnixWare and OpenServer. The talk was titled, "Open Source Components in SCO OpenServer and SCO UnixWare", and the credits list Ron Record at SCO engineering, who we've written about before on Groklaw in this context. One of the talk's slides lists the binutils package in OpenServer as OpenServer gnutools package, which means they had to know, I think, where it came from and that it is GPL'd, and there is a list of ftp sites to get the package. And indeed they knew:

3. The programs in this supplement are provided here free of charge in accordance with the authors' licensing policies.

4. The source code for all of these packages is freely available, although not as part of this supplement. If you wish to see the source code, please download the original packages from the Internet. The source code for the collection as it was compiled will be made available on the SCO ftp site.

Actually, SCO's right hand did not know what it's left hand was doing, and they did list all the source available here, including gnutools. I made screenshots at the time, and I note that the talk's slides are still listed on Google as being available here on SCO's website.

Full post as published by Groklaw on December 20, 2009 (boomark / email).