SCO's "proof"

SCO's "proof"

[Brandon Stewart]

compliments of "d1rkinator" from yahoo finance message board:

The code SCO finds offending:

www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh1.jpg

Its location in Linux:

/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c

And its heritage:

minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/sys/sys/malloc.c.html

Ok, SCO: This was easy. Now, show us the other many examples.

Re: SCO's "proof"

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Brandon Stewart (rbrandonstewart@yahoo.com) wrote:
> compliments of "d1rkinator" from yahoo finance message board:
> 
> The code SCO finds offending:
> 
> www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
> www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh1.jpg

Ah I was wondering if anyone had a copy of that.

> Its location in Linux:
> 
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c
> 
> And its heritage:
> 
> minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/sys/sys/malloc.c.html
> 
> Ok, SCO: This was easy. Now, show us the other many examples.

Is it? What the hell was the copyright on that code?

Dave
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Re: SCO's "proof"

[Frank Gevaerts]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:52:13PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Brandon Stewart (rbrandonstewart@yahoo.com) wrote:
> > compliments of "d1rkinator" from yahoo finance message board:
> > 
> > The code SCO finds offending:
> > 
> > www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
> > www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh1.jpg
> 
> Ah I was wondering if anyone had a copy of that.
> 
> > Its location in Linux:
> > 
> > /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c
> > 
> > And its heritage:
> > 
> > minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/sys/sys/malloc.c.html
> > 
> > Ok, SCO: This was easy. Now, show us the other many examples.
> 
> Is it? What the hell was the copyright on that code?

AFAIK it was released under a BSD license by Caldera...

Frank

> 
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Re: SCO's "proof"

[Tupshin Harper]

Frank Gevaerts wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 03:52:13PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>  
>
>>* Brandon Stewart (rbrandonstewart@yahoo.com) wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>compliments of "d1rkinator" from yahoo finance message board:
>>>
>>>The code SCO finds offending:
>>>
>>>www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
>>>www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh1.jpg
>>>      
>>>
>>Ah I was wondering if anyone had a copy of that.
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Its location in Linux:
>>>
>>>/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c
>>>
>>>And its heritage:
>>>
>>>minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/sys/sys/malloc.c.html
>>>
>>>Ok, SCO: This was easy. Now, show us the other many examples.
>>>      
>>>
>>Is it? What the hell was the copyright on that code?
>>    
>>
>
>AFAIK it was released under a BSD license by Caldera...
>
>Frank
>
http://www.tuhs.org/Archive/Caldera-license.pdf

<quote>
January 23, 2002
Dear UNIX? enthusiasts,
Caldera International, Inc. hereby grants a fee free license that 
includes the rights use, modify and distribute this named
source code, including creating derived binary products created from the 
source code. The source code for which Caldera
International, Inc. grants rights are limited to the following UNIX 
Operating Systems that operate on the 16-Bit PDP-11
CPU and early versions of the 32-Bit UNIX Operating System, with 
specific exclusion of UNIX System III and UNIX
System V and successor operating systems:
32-bit 32V UNIX
16 bit UNIX Versions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
</quote>

-Tupshin

Re: SCO's "proof"

[Colin Paul Adams]

>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be> writes:

    >> > minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/sys/sys/malloc.c.html
    >> > 
    >> > Ok, SCO: This was easy. Now, show us the other many examples.
    >> 
    >> Is it? What the hell was the copyright on that code?

    Frank> AFAIK it was released under a BSD license by Caldera...

But Caldera are SCO now, aren't they? Are they going to sue themselves!?
-- 
Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire

Re: SCO's "proof"

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Colin Paul Adams:
> >>>>> "Frank" == Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be> writes:
> 
>     >> > minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/sys/sys/malloc.c.html
>     >> > 
>     >> > Ok, SCO: This was easy. Now, show us the other many examples.
>     >> 
>     >> Is it? What the hell was the copyright on that code?
> 
>     Frank> AFAIK it was released under a BSD license by Caldera...
> 
> But Caldera are SCO now, aren't they? Are they going to sue themselves!?

We can only hope.

Kurt
-- 
Fourth Law of Revision:
	It is usually impractical to worry beforehand about
interferences -- if you have none, someone will make one for you.

Re: SCO's "proof"

[bill davidsen]

In article <lt4r0du0t3.fsf@colina.demon.co.uk>,
Colin Paul Adams  <colin@colina.demon.co.uk> wrote:
| >>>>> "Frank" == Frank Gevaerts <frank@gevaerts.be> writes:
| 
|     >> > minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/sys/sys/malloc.c.html
|     >> > 
|     >> > Ok, SCO: This was easy. Now, show us the other many examples.
|     >> 
|     >> Is it? What the hell was the copyright on that code?
| 
|     Frank> AFAIK it was released under a BSD license by Caldera...
| 
| But Caldera are SCO now, aren't they? Are they going to sue themselves!?

Thay should! Oh wait, you said sue, not shoot... nevermind.
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

Re: SCO's "proof"

[Valdis.Kletnieks]

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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:27:31 -0000, davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)  said:
> Colin Paul Adams  <colin@colina.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> | But Caldera are SCO now, aren't they? Are they going to sue themselves!?
> 
> Thay should! Oh wait, you said sue, not shoot... nevermind.

Only in the foot.. only in the foot.. unfortunately.

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Re: SCO's "proof"

[Stuart Longland]

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| On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 18:27:31 -0000, davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)
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|
|>Colin Paul Adams  <colin@colina.demon.co.uk> wrote:
|>| But Caldera are SCO now, aren't they? Are they going to sue themselves!?
|>
|>Thay should! Oh wait, you said sue, not shoot... nevermind.
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|
| Only in the foot.. only in the foot.. unfortunately.

This case is getting more rediculous with each day...lfmao

Oh dear, it seems that our /comments/ are alike.  Hrmm.  Pity the
compiller doesn't take any notice of them, and therefore, I don't see
the evidence that the /code/ has been stolen.  Also, as others have
quite rightfully pointed out, it doesn't even compile -- syntax errors
galore.

Lets hope some people in the legal profession have some C knowledge --
or at least have the sense to go directly to the kernel source on
kernel.org rather than relying on what SCO provides.

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Re: SCO's "proof"

[Stephan von Krawczynski]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 13:09:27 +1000
Stuart Longland <stuartl@longlandclan.hopto.org> wrote:

> This case is getting more rediculous with each day...lfmao
> 
> Oh dear, it seems that our /comments/ are alike.  Hrmm.  Pity the
> compiller doesn't take any notice of them, and therefore, I don't see
> the evidence that the /code/ has been stolen.  Also, as others have
> quite rightfully pointed out, it doesn't even compile -- syntax errors
> galore.
> 
> Lets hope some people in the legal profession have some C knowledge --
> or at least have the sense to go directly to the kernel source on
> kernel.org rather than relying on what SCO provides.

As the only case that SCO has filed up to now is against IBM (as far as I know)
you should be aware of the possibility that this proof presented is only a
piece of FUD to distract from the real issues. IBM has never touched this
source, so it is irrelevant to the case.

Regards,
Stephan

Re: SCO's "proof"

[Bart Samwel]

For those of you who don't speek greek, the greek text is English and reads:

"As part of the kernel evolution towords modular naming, the functions 
malloc and free are being renamed to rmalloc and rfree.
Compatibility will be maintained by the following assembler code:
(also see free/malloc below)"

What a way of obfuscating their IP. :)

Bart

Brandon Stewart wrote:

> compliments of "d1rkinator" from yahoo finance message board:
> 
> The code SCO finds offending:
> 
> www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
> www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh1.jpg
> 
> Its location in Linux:
> 
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c
> 
> And its heritage:
> 
> minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/sys/sys/malloc.c.html
> 
> Ok, SCO: This was easy. Now, show us the other many examples.
> 
> 
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Re: SCO's "proof"

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Bart Samwel wrote:

> For those of you who don't speek greek, the greek text is English and reads:
>
> "As part of the kernel evolution towords modular naming, the functions
> malloc and free are being renamed to rmalloc and rfree.
> Compatibility will be maintained by the following assembler code:
> (also see free/malloc below)"
>
> What a way of obfuscating their IP. :)
>
> Bart
>
> Brandon Stewart wrote:
>
> > compliments of "d1rkinator" from yahoo finance message board:
> >
> > The code SCO finds offending:
> >
> > www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
> > www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh1.jpg
> >
> > Its location in Linux:
> >
> > /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c
> >
> > And its heritage:
> >
> > minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/sys/sys/malloc.c.html
> >
> > Ok, SCO: This was easy. Now, show us the other many examples.
> >
> >
> > -

confuse.S follows.
----------------
#
#  Enormously complicated assembly-language program released
#  under GPL, herein referenced ;)
#
#  This program will actually work. Am I violating somebody's
#  patent? Sue me.
#
.section	.text
rmalloc:	jmp	malloc
rfree:		jmp	free
print:		jmp	printf	# Fix typical typos
.global	rmalloc
.type	rmalloc,@function
.global	rfree
.type	rfree,@function
.global	print
.type	print,@function
.end
---------------


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.

Re: SCO's "proof"

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Brandon Stewart wrote:

> compliments of "d1rkinator" from yahoo finance message board:
>
> The code SCO finds offending:
>
> www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
> www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh1.jpg
>
> Its location in Linux:
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c
>
> And its heritage:
>
> minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/sys/sys/malloc.c.html
>
> Ok, SCO: This was easy. Now, show us the other many examples.
>

Oh! That's wonderful! They own an Alogrithm called "first-fit".
Really!!! Maybe it's the comments thay they claim ownership
of. Certainly the code, supplied by SCI (their (c)), can't be
the offender.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.

Re: SCO's "proof"

[Jeff Garzik]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:37:13AM -0400, Brandon Stewart wrote:
> compliments of "d1rkinator" from yahoo finance message board:
> 
> The code SCO finds offending:
> 
> www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
> www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh1.jpg

Why the heck is ia64 inventing its own mutex spinlocks?

Sigh.

Here's the original Heise article, for those who read German:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/

	Jeff

Re: SCO's "proof"

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 11:30:56 -0400, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> said:

  Jeff> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:37:13AM -0400, Brandon Stewart
  Jeff> wrote:
  >> compliments of "d1rkinator" from yahoo finance message board:

  >> The code SCO finds offending:

  >> www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
  >> www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh1.jpg

  Jeff> Why the heck is ia64 inventing its own mutex spinlocks?

  Jeff> Sigh.

  Jeff> Here's the original Heise article, for those who read German:
  Jeff> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/

It's not ia64, it's the SGI platform-specific code...

	--david

Re: SCO's "proof"

[Matti Aarnio]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 11:30:56AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
...
> Here's the original Heise article, for those who read German:
> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/

And a tiny-url redirected google-translated english version:
  http://tinyurl.com/ki2a

(amazingly readable version that translation..)

> 	Jeff

/Matti Aarnio

Re: SCO's "proof"

[J.A. Magallon]

On 08.19, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:37:13AM -0400, Brandon Stewart wrote:
> > compliments of "d1rkinator" from yahoo finance message board:
> > 
> > The code SCO finds offending:
> > 
> > www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
> > www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh1.jpg
> 
> Why the heck is ia64 inventing its own mutex spinlocks?
> 

They can't even copy code to a slide:

	if (size==0)
		return)((ulong_t NULL);

That does not compile...

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Re: SCO's "proof"

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, J.A. Magallon wrote:

>
> On 08.19, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:37:13AM -0400, Brandon Stewart wrote:
> > > compliments of "d1rkinator" from yahoo finance message board:
> > >
> > > The code SCO finds offending:
> > >
> > > www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
> > > www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh1.jpg
> >
> > Why the heck is ia64 inventing its own mutex spinlocks?
> >
>
> They can't even copy code to a slide:
>
> 	if (size==0)
> 		return)((ulong_t NULL);
>
> That does not compile...
>
> --
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> Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (Cooker) for i586
> Linux 2.4.22-rc2-jam1m (gcc 3.3.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.2 3.3.1-1mdk))

Well it certainly looks as though they copied Linux. At least
they copied the comments okay. It also looks as though the
`evidence` was additionally tampered with because, what is
alleged to be appropriated code will not even compile because
of the tampering.

In the United States Courts, one cannot simply hand-copy some
so-called evidence. This so-called evidence will never make
it to court. If this is being used as evidence, this is prima-
facie evidence of fraud.

Don't do the editing for them. Just let them make their phony
evidence. If this continues, somebody will lose their license
to practice law, and sombody may even end up in jail.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
            Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.

Re: SCO's "proof"

[Sulaiman Alhasawi]

>
>
>>>>www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
>>>>
   
  What is the  language on  "System V" code  ?   ;-)

Re: SCO's "proof"

[Paul Rolland]

> >>>>www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
> >>>>
>    
>   What is the  language on  "System V" code  ?   ;-)
> 
lawyer-ish :-)

Paul

Re: SCO's "proof"

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Sulaiman Alhasawi wrote:
> >>>>www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
> >>>>
>    
>   What is the  language on  "System V" code  ?   ;-)

English using a Greek font.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

					Geert (\Gamma\epsilon\epsilon\rho\tau)

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds

Re: SCO's "proof"

[Måns Rullgård]

Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> writes:

>>   What is the  language on  "System V" code  ?   ;-)
>
> English using a Greek font.

AFAIK, C source code doesn't contain any font information, not even in
comments.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@users.sf.net

Re: SCO's "proof"

[Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra]

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 12:35:05 +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote:

> AFAIK, C source code doesn't contain any font information, not even in
> comments.

	Good morning, the font was applied in the PowerPoint slides...


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Re: SCO's "proof"

[Vojtech Pavlik]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 09:37:13AM -0400, Brandon Stewart wrote:
> compliments of "d1rkinator" from yahoo finance message board:
> 
> The code SCO finds offending:
> 
> www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
> www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh1.jpg
> 
> Its location in Linux:
> 
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c
> 
> And its heritage:
> 
> minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/sys/sys/malloc.c.html
> 
> Ok, SCO: This was easy. Now, show us the other many examples.

Nothing new. See this LKML post by Neil Moore and the following thread,
named "Unix code in Linux" from Jun 19:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0306.2/1064.html

That code isn't present in 2.5 anymore.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR

Re: SCO's "proof"

[Andrei Barbu "T'Eval"]

The first image seems usless
Comments are not acceptable in this type of case, that was ruled in
court before over AT&T vs Berkely.
So.. it's completely irrelevant in the real world. As for the 2nd they'd
still have to go a long way twoards proving they didn't steal it.

Re: SCO's "proof"

[P. Christeas]

>On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Sulaiman Alhasawi wrote:
>> >>>>www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
>> >>>>
>>    
>>   What is the  language on  "System V" code  ?   ;-)

>English using a Greek font.

>Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>					Geert (\Gamma\epsilon\epsilon\rho\tau)

The font is not any Greek font. It is the M$ 'Symbol' one. Other fonts would 
not have this effect at all.

It seems that the misplaced font is the result of much tampering ;) . 
Moreover, this could mostly happen in a M$ machine. Some comment on SCO about 
this ?

Re: SCO's "proof"

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:36:45PM +0300, P. Christeas wrote:
> It seems that the misplaced font is the result of much tampering ;) . 
> Moreover, this could mostly happen in a M$ machine. Some comment on SCO about 
> this ?

Well, a few years ago at old Caldera and SCO every non-techie used Windows.
At old SCO even lots of techies used Windows for email..

Re: SCO's "proof"

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Christoph Hellwig:
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 12:36:45PM +0300, P. Christeas wrote:
> > It seems that the misplaced font is the result of much tampering ;) . 
> > Moreover, this could mostly happen in a M$ machine. Some comment on SCO about 
> > this ?
> 
> Well, a few years ago at old Caldera and SCO every non-techie used Windows.
> At old SCO even lots of techies used Windows for email..

Yup. I remember those days. I was appalled.

Kurt
-- 
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to
choose from.
		-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Re: SCO's "proof"

[Con Kolivas]

On Friday 22 August 2003 19:36, P. Christeas wrote:
> >On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Sulaiman Alhasawi wrote:
> >> >>>>www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
> >>
> >>   What is the  language on  "System V" code  ?   ;-)
> >
> >English using a Greek font.
> >
> >Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> >					Geert (\Gamma\epsilon\epsilon\rho\tau)
>
> The font is not any Greek font. It is the M$ 'Symbol' one. Other fonts
> would not have this effect at all.
>
> It seems that the misplaced font is the result of much tampering ;) .
> Moreover, this could mostly happen in a M$ machine. Some comment on SCO
> about this ?

Since greek characters are easy for me to read here is said conversion since 
people are curious:

As part of the kernel evolution towards modular naming, the
functions malloc and mfree are being renamed to pmalloc and pmfree
Compatibility will be maintained by the following assembler code:
(also see mfree/pmfree below)