In another letter to SCO licensees, SCO is now claiming that it holds copyright to errno, signal, and ioctl interfaces. Furtermore, SCO's reading of the BSD settlement is that only BSD 4.4-Lite derived packages may contain these interfaces as open source software (thanks to the settlement in the USL/UCBerkeley suit). And in case that doesn't make it clear that SCO believes these interfaces do not belong in Linux:
The ABI Code identified above is part of the UNIX Derived Files and, as such, must carry USL / SCO copyright notices and may not be used in any GPL distribution, inasmuch as the affirmative consent of the copyright holder has not been obtained, and will not be obtained, for such a distribution under the GPL.In other news, Novell has filed for copyright on some old SysV releases, some as recently as this month. SCO has filed for copyright on some of the same SysV releases (SysV 3.x, SysV 4.x). Who's right? Well, the courts will have to decide this one, eventually.
It's just about time to put the popcorn in the popper. This is going to be a long, drawn out drama.
