From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269294AbUJVXjt (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:39:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269281AbUJVXjC (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:39:02 -0400 Received: from c7ns3.center7.com ([216.250.142.14]:54467 "EHLO smtp.slc03.viawest.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269251AbUJVXgY (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:36:24 -0400 Message-ID: <417990AE.5050806@drdos.com> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:58:54 -0600 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jonathan@jonmasters.org Cc: brian wheeler , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout References: <1098480691.8033.8.camel@wombat.educ.indiana.edu> <41797B49.5020809@drdos.com> <35fb2e5904102216038257cb1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <35fb2e5904102216038257cb1@mail.gmail.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 Jon Masters wrote: >Jeff, > >Could you please digitally sign this mail that you are planning to >send or otherwise provide notorisation that confirms you definately >mean this? > >I'd love for you to accept liability for this so we can pass all SCO >enquiries on to you. > >Jon. > > > Yes. I can do even better. I met with Darl McBride this afternoon regarding the GrokSmear postings (First time I've ever met him) at SCO's request -- they invited me over and were trying to put out some sort of release to correct GrokSmear's attacks. He gave me the first list, and I am waiting on the second with all the details. I don't think he likes Linux much but he said he supported disclosing the whole thing and he said he wanted "his stuff" out of the Linux tree. I am waiting on Chris Sonntag and Blake to get me the "approved" listing. I will have it probably Monday. I'll post it then. Darl gave me the prelimiary listing but we need to post the final. I'll upload the listing to ftp.kernel.org://pub/linux/kernel/people/jmerkey and everyone can look it over. This would be good since it will give folks the ability to challenge/correct/remove/modify whatever and get SCO off Linux's back. Darl seemed like a nice enough sort, but he doesn't care much for Linux or IBM and he's pretty harsh on IBM. We argued for 30 minutes about SMP support in Linux and I think he will just let this one go since I pointed out that Novell had disclosed the Unixware SMP stuff at Brainshare and he cannot claim it as trade secrete any longer. He would not budge on RCU, NUMA, JFS, or XFS however, and he also said any IBM employee who contributed SMP code in his opinion may have misappropriated it and he would claim any contribution from any IBM employee in Linux. I will post to kernel.org the complete listing. Jeff