From: Adam Flinton 

More:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9952

Adam

Adam Flinton wrote:
> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1123176,00.asp
>
> "A source close to SCO, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told eWEEK
> that parts of the Linux kernel code were copied into the Unix System V
> source tree by former or current SCO employees."
>
> "The source, who has seen both the Unix System V source code and the
> Linux source code and who assisted with a SCO project to bring the two
> kernels closer together, said that SCO "basically re-implemented the
> Linux kernel with functions available in the Unix kernel to build what
> is now known as the Linux Kernel Personality (LKP) in SCO Unix."
>
> The LKP is a feature that allows users to run standard Linux
> applications along with standard Unix applications on a single system
> using the UnixWare kernel.
>
> "During that project we often came across sections of code that looked
> very similar, in fact we wondered why even variable names were
> identical. It looked very much like both codes had the same origin, but
> that was good as the implementation of 95 percent of all Linux system
> calls on the Unix kernel turned out to be literally 'one-liners'," the
> source said. "
>
> I reckon this is what has prompted this whole thing.
>
> I think Boies has read the GPL & has informed Darl.....
>
> Adam
>

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