From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272255AbTGYTEx (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:04:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272256AbTGYTEw (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:04:52 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:526 "HELO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S272255AbTGYTEw (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:04:52 -0400 Message-ID: <3F218500.8070702@techsource.com> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:29:04 -0400 From: Timothy Miller User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Felipe Alfaro Solana CC: Larry McVoy , Diego Calleja Garc?a , Michael Bernstein , gmicsko@szintezis.hu, LKML Subject: Re: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux References: <1058807414.513.4.camel@sunshine> <141DFFFA-BBA4-11D7-A61F-000A95773C00@seven-angels.net> <20030721205940.7190f845.diegocg@teleline.es> <1059058329.957.11.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> <20030724150841.GA12647@work.bitmover.com> <1059068046.577.3.camel@teapot.felipe-alfaro.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote: > > We can't be liable for the work of others over which we don't have total > control. Or is the law forcing us to check line by line the > contributions made by hundreds of programmers all around the world? I'm sure someone else has asked this by now, but... Given that we don't have access to the proprietary source code that might be contributed, how could we check to make sure that submitted code wasn't stolen?