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You're going to laugh. I certainly am. Remember when SCO claimed in the SCO v. IBM litigation and to the press that it never knowingly released code under the GPL? We debunked that GPL-virginity story back in 2007, but you'll never guess what I just found, a press release from 2001 on the release of AIM under the GPL and... drum roll... SCO granting "open access" to Open Unix 8 source code. It's titled "Caldera to Open Source AIM Performance Benchmarks, UNIX Regular Expression Parser and Give "Open Access" to Open UNIX 8 Source Code". AIM was released under the GPL. My stars, but SCO is in the following pickle now: it sued IBM for trade secret violation, although it later dropped that claim, then it claimed at trial in the Novell litigation that UnixWare is just the latest version of Unix System V, and we know that Open UNIX is what they called UnixWare briefly in SCO's very complicated history. Connect the dots. I know! How do you sue anybody for trade secret violations after doing that? Methods and concepts?!? How about SCO's NDA requirements to peek at what they claimed was allegedly infringing code? According to the press release, SCO had a special web page set up where you could go to download the Open UNIX 8 source code. The subhead of the press release was "Open Source Community, Users to Benefit from Access to UNIX Intellectual Property." My dears. How will they explain that away? How do you like this paragraph? The UNIX Regular Expression Parser is a library function from Open UNIX 8 used by a number of standard UNIX utilities for complex pattern matching of pieces of text. By Open Sourcing this, along with the awk and grep utilities, Caldera begins a process of making some of the original UNIX utilities, upon which the GNU/Linux system was modeled, available as reference sources. This gives the Open Source community an opportunity to reference these implementations and incorporate the best of both source streams into future GPL implementations of these tools. "Into future *GPL* implementations of these tools"! These guys are a sketch, as my dear grannie used to say. She was very polite, and I'll try to emulate her, but inside, I am guffawing. I told you it'd be worth it to go through the old stuff we had lying around. By the way, I started out looking for the press release about SCO open sourcing their version of DOS. They did that too. I remembered it, because of Microsoft's FAT patent litigation against TomTom, and I realized that press release wasn't in the Groklaw collection either. So here's the press release on OpenDOS.
Guess what else Caldera GPLd? It funded Samba libraries, according to their own press release, "Caldera Sponsors Samba Client Library Development", and released them under the GPL: Caldera Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD), today announced that they have contracted with Richard Sharpe of the Samba team to create a client library that will make Linux and Microsoft integration easier for developers. The Caldera-funded project includes the development of library source code, associated reorganization and reuse of Samba code and documentation of the library application program interface (API). As part of the Samba project, the library and documentation will be available under the General Public License (GPL). Caldera's engineering group will work with the Samba team to complete the project by February 2001.
"Richard Sharpe is perfectly suited for this project," said John Terpstra, vice president of technology and Open Source strategist for Caldera Systems, Inc. "We believe this library built with Samba code will become the standard for developers writing software that integrates with Microsoft networking." My grandmother wouldn't approve if I said SCO is full of it, so I'll refrain. But isn't this fun?
Here's the meat of the press release about AIM and Open Unix 8:
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Caldera to Open Source AIM Performance Benchmarks, UNIX Regular Expression Parser and Give "Open Access" to Open UNIX 8 Source Code
CALDERA TO OPEN SOURCE AIM PERFORMANCE BENCHMARKS, UNIX REGULAR EXPRESSION PARSER AND GIVE “OPEN ACCESS” TO OPEN UNIX 8 SOURCE CODE
Open Source Community, Users to Benefit from Access to UNIX Intellectual Property
FORUM 2001, SANTA CRUZ, CA—August 20, 2001— Caldera International, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD) today announced it will Open Source the AIM performance benchmarks and the UNIX Regular Expression Parser, along with two UNIX utilities awk and grep. These technologies will be released under the GPL (Gnu General Public License). In a related move, Caldera will also be making the Open UNIX 8 source code available to members of its developer program who request it. Information about the Caldera developer network is available at http://www.caldera.com/partners/developer/.
These announcements reflect the continued intention on the part of Caldera to progressively contribute source code and to provide ongoing support to the Open Source community. Caldera expects to release further components of the UNIX intellectual property in coming months.
The AIM performance benchmarks are industry-standard server benchmarks acquired from the former AIM Technology. By Open Sourcing the benchmarks, companies may use them to establish independent validation of internal benchmarking. For example, Caldera can independently establish scalability and stability comparisons between Open UNIX 8 and other platforms. Although the sources will be released under the GPL, the use of the AIM Benchmark trademark in connection with these programs will be restricted based on published guidelines to assure the integrity of these tests as industry standard references.
The UNIX Regular Expression Parser is a library function from Open UNIX 8 used by a number of standard UNIX utilities for complex pattern matching of pieces of text. By Open Sourcing this, along with the awk and grep utilities, Caldera begins a process of making some of the original UNIX utilities, upon which the GNU/Linux system was modeled, available as reference sources. This gives the Open Source community an opportunity to reference these implementations and incorporate the best of both source streams into future GPL implementations of these tools.
“Many in the Open Source community have asked Caldera to GPL these technologies,” said John Terpstra, vice president of technology for Caldera International. “We have now delivered these utilities and benchmarks. We have chosen the GPL license to directly support corresponding GNU projects.”
The Regular Expression library and tools will be made publicly available on SourceForge this week at http://unixtools.sourceforge.net. In coming months, Caldera will Open Source other UNIX tools and utilities, including pkgmk, pkgadd, pkgrm, pkginfo, pkgproto and more, as well as the Bourne shell, lex, yacc, sed, m4 and make. The licenses under which these technologies will be Open Sourced will be decided based on community and business needs.
“We are very pleased to offer much of the UNIX source code that laid the foundation for the whole GNU/Linux movement,” said Ransom Love, CEO of Caldera International. “In each case, we will apply the right license – GPL, Berkeley, Mozilla, Open Access, or other license – as appropriate to our business goals.
“Our intention is to steer the middle course in the public debate – it’s not a case of free or Open Source versus proprietary, but both, as the situation warrants. We believe the industry is evolving to a model where source code is freely available, innovation is nurtured at the grass roots, and businesses, such as Caldera, can add value as both product and service companies.”
Open Access to Open UNIX 8
The Caldera Open Access license is intended to give customers the ability to both reference and modify the source code. However, the initial release of source code will be read only, giving customers and software developers a significant reference as they develop applications for Open UNIX 8. In the future, customers and developers will be allowed to change the source code as long as they return the changes to Caldera. This will allow Caldera to maintain a standard business quality platform.
Open UNIX incorporates some proprietary third party technology which means source code for certain third party modules will not be available due to licensing restrictions.
“Over time the licensing and delivery of our Open Access sources will evolve and improve,” explained John Harker, vice president of product management. “Our immediate goal was to provide basic source reference access following the model of SCO’s source products by simply eliminating the license fee. We’re looking at ways to make this as streamlined as possible.”
The Open Access license is free, but will require a signed license agreement. Delivery of the sources in CD form will require a nominal media payment. Further details will be available when the sources are released in October of this year.
Open Source
From its inception, Caldera has shared technology with the Open Source community. Technologies that have been Open Sourced include Webmin – a Web-based administration tool, LIZARD – the award-winning Linux Installation Wizard, Linux Unattended Installation (LUI), Linux Installation Administration (LISA) and Caldera Open Administration System (COAS). Please visit www.openlinux.org to download Caldera’s technologies that have been open-sourced.
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| Authored by: chaz_paw on Monday, March 02 2009 @ 07:09 PM EST |
Corrections, if any, here please.
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| Authored by: perpetualLurker on Monday, March 02 2009 @ 07:13 PM EST |
Thank you!
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| Authored by: perpetualLurker on Monday, March 02 2009 @ 07:14 PM EST |
Thank you!
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 02 2009 @ 07:20 PM EST |
' . . . will open . . . will be making . . . will be released . . . will be
made publicly available . . . '
Always the imperfective aspect.
Did Caldera ever come through?
Wendell Cochran
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 02 2009 @ 07:20 PM EST |
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| Authored by: wvhillbilly on Monday, March 02 2009 @ 07:25 PM EST |
Let me get this right... You're saying SCO is suing IBM now for infringing code
SCO released under the GPL in 2001?
SCO is not only full of it, they're overflowing dirty dishwater all over the
kitchen floor.--To put it politely.
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| Authored by: webster on Monday, March 02 2009 @ 07:31 PM EST |
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Discovery should reveal who took them up on this. Caldera required a written
license with the GPL condition of giving the code back.
It would be most interesting if IBM, Novell, or some other Linux developers
actually licensed and used the code.
All that SCOfolk can say is that it is true, they are ignorant, and that it
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| Authored by: red floyd on Monday, March 02 2009 @ 07:32 PM EST |
That 2001 press release was during the Ransom Love's tenure. Under his
administration, Caldera may, in fact, have had every intention of allowing
"future GPL implementations" of tools using the regex code.
Darl was the guy who went the lawsuit route.
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- Be Gentle, PJ - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 02 2009 @ 07:41 PM EST
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| Authored by: ankylosaurus on Monday, March 02 2009 @ 08:47 PM EST |
| If you follow the URL in the release
(
http://unixtools.sourceforge.net/), you still get to pages from which the
code can be downloaded. Dates are circa 2001-08-20. The download tar file
contains two other gzipped tar files.
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| Authored by: dmomara on Monday, March 02 2009 @ 09:29 PM EST |
Along with "low cost educational source code licenses".
Described here.
No doubt to be able to complain about "mental
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, March 02 2009 @ 10:06 PM EST |
Caldera's New Server Products Scale Linux Applications From Low-end to High-end
OREM, Utah--June 26, 2001-- Caldera International Inc. (Nasdaq: CALD), the
global leader "Unifying UNIX with Linux for Business™," Tuesday
announced the launch of its new server products, Caldera OpenLinux Server and
Caldera Open UNIX 8, which enable the deployment of Linux applications on both
the Linux and UNIX platforms.
Using the Linux application environment as a common interface, Caldera's new
server products provide dependable platforms for business needs ranging from the
low-end server to the high-end data center.
"Caldera's release of these products demonstrates our desire to lift the
strengths of Linux and incorporate them with the many well-known strengths of
UNIX," said Ransom Love, chief executive officer of Caldera.
"With Open UNIX 8 and OpenLinux Server, Caldera provides the best in UNIX
and Linux deployment. The result is cost savings, stability and an extremely
scalable application environment."
Open UNIX 8 is the most advanced deployment platform for industry standard
Intel® processor systems. Open UNIX 8 is the trusted foundation for solutions
where proven scalability, reliability and affordability are critical.
Whether powering a data center or running a small to medium business, Open UNIX
8 delivers the complete flexibility of Linux, with the same scalability and
reliability that is synonymous with UNIX systems.
Open UNIX 8 is a significant milestone for Caldera to deliver on the commitment
to unify UNIX with Linux for business. Open UNIX 8 incorporates the Linux Kernel
Personality (LKP) technology, which enables customers to run Linux applications
and UNIX applications simultaneously.
Open UNIX 8 is an evolution of and maintains compatibility with the SCO®
UnixWare® operating system acquired by Caldera. Open UNIX 8 includes
enhancements and refinements to the UNIX platform, representing significant
added value for existing UnixWare 7 customers who can easily upgrade to this new
release.
"With Caldera's support, we have already achieved important customer wins
via delivery of the SilverStream Application Server for Linux on Open UNIX
8," said Bill Critch, director of alliances for SilverStream.
"We are excited about working together with Caldera to deliver
SilverStream's Linux-based products for J2EE, XML and Web services on Open UNIX
8 -- Caldera's Linux deployment platform for business critical systems."
OpenLinux Server is an ideal product for building Internet-enabled business
solutions. Based on the Linux 2.4 kernel, the product is unique in that it is a
fully integrated and stable Linux operating system. OpenLinux Server comes with
default configurations for secure Web, file and print and network infrastructure
servers.
"We are pre-loading OpenLinux Server on Compaq Proliant servers because
Caldera delivers commercial quality business solutions," said Rick Becker,
director of business development, Compaq Industry Standard Server group.
"We are excited about the stability of this product after rigorously
testing it on our Compaq® Proliant® Servers. With OpenLinux Server, Caldera is
moving away from providing a Linux distribution to providing a strong server
product for small- and medium-sized businesses."
OpenLinux Server saves users significant time and money in the installation,
configuration, deployment, and management of business solutions by providing
default working configurations.
Each configuration is out-of-the-box secure, easily deployed and manageable
using browser-based remote management and configuration utilities bundled in
each system. OpenLinux Server is targeted to small and medium businesses,
Fortune 1000 companies with remote connected sites and SCO OpenServer customers
migrating to Linux.
OpenLinux Server is easy to manage and maintain using any of the management
tools that are bundled with the product.
The tools include: Webmin™, a secure browser-based management capability; a
Caldera® Volution™ agent which allows easy configuration and management of Linux
systems; and Volution Online, a browser-based decision tool and update service
used to assess the impact of and enable the easy deployment of software updates.
"The new Caldera is a compelling alternative for the reseller
channel," said Ron Herman, president of Blue Chip Computer Systems. "I
can now turn to Caldera to meet all the backend needs of my clients -- OpenLinux
Server for the low-end and Open UNIX for the high-end."
"Caldera's focal point is to solidify Linux as the alternative business
platform," said Bill Claybrook, research director for Linux and Open Source
at Aberdeen Group. "With the release of their server products, Caldera
assumes the role of a single company that the enterprise can come to for all
their back-end solutions."
For more information about Caldera Open UNIX 8 and OpenLinux Server, including
features and benefits, visit http://www.caldera.com/company/presskit/launch. To
read what others are saying about Open UNIX 8 and OpenLinux Server, visit
http://www.caldera.com/partners/industry/launchquotes.html.
Availability and Support
Open UNIX 8 and OpenLinux Server are immediately available. Localized versions
of Open UNIX 8 in French, Spanish and German will be available by the end of the
month. Localized OpenLinux Server versions will be available over the next few
months.
Support services are available through Caldera partners, or direct from Caldera.
Caldera offers a broad portfolio of technical support services tailored to the
needs of partners, corporate accounts and end users.
Support centers in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific are staffed by
Caldera's highly skilled support engineers and offer worldwide 24x7 enterprise
and local language support. For more information on the extensive Caldera
support service offerings, visit http://www.caldera.com/support.
Open UNIX 8 and OpenLinux Server are available for purchase through Caldera's
channel partners. To contact a distributor or reseller in your area, visit
http://www.caldera.com/partners/dist/ or
http://www.caldera.com/partners/regions.html. You may also contact Caldera by
dialing 888/GoLinux or by e-mail at sales@caldera.com.
Caldera International Inc.
Caldera International is the leader in "Unifying UNIX with Linux for
Business." Caldera was the first to create the "Develop-on, Deploy-on,
Manage" strategy for Linux-based clients and servers. Based in Orem,
Caldera has representation in 82 countries and has 15,000+ resellers worldwide.
For more information on Caldera products and services, visit
http://www.caldera.com.
Caldera, the Caldera logos, OpenLinux, Volution, SCO OpenServer, UnixWare and
"Unifying UNIX® with Linux® for Business" are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Caldera International Inc. in the United States and other
countries.
All other products, services, companies, events and publications are trademarks,
registered trademarks or servicemarks of their respective owners in the United
States and other countries.
LINUX is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group in the United States and other
countries.
Forward-Looking Statements
The statements set forth above include forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties. The company wishes to advise readers that a number of
important factors could cause actual results to differ materially from those in
the forward-looking statements.
Those factors include the failure of the products described above to operate as
designed due to incompatibility with some platforms or other defects; our
reliance on developers in the open source community; new and changing
technologies and customer acceptance of those technologies; the company's
ability to compete effectively with other companies; failure of our brand to
achieve the broad recognition necessary to succeed; unenforceability of the GNU
general public license and other Open Source licenses; our reliance on third
party developers of components of our software offerings; claims of infringement
of third-party intellectual property rights; and disruption in the company's
distribution sales channel.
These and other factors, which could cause actual results to differ materially,
are also discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 03 2009 @ 02:39 AM EST |
"""it will Open Source the AIM performance benchmarks and the
UNIX Regular Expression Parser, along with two UNIX utilities awk and grep.
These technologies will be released under the GPL (Gnu General Public License).
In a related move, Caldera will also be making the Open UNIX 8 source code
available to members of its developer program who request it."""
Some seem to have taken this as saying that Unixware 8 will be, or has been,
GPLed.
The AIM Performance benchmark program,
The regular expression parser,
The grep and awk programs
have been (or will be) GPLed. These are a small part of Unix and UnixWare but
are just utilities and are _NOT_ 'the source code of Unix or Unixware', nor are
they anything to do with 'Methods and concepts' or 'Trade secrets'.
While they say that they will 'Give "Open Access" to Open UNIX 8
Source Code' there is no implication that it will be GPLed. They also say that
it will be only "available to members of its developer program who request
it".
This does not make it public as it is only to 'members' and it may require that
this be done under NDA or other restriction. In fact is says that it "will
require a signed license agreement".
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| Authored by: jrvalverde on Tuesday, March 03 2009 @ 03:54 AM EST |
Sorry to throw a bucketful of cold water here, but in spite of how much I
admire your work, PJ, this time you got it wrong.
See the
discussion on the TUHS list of July 2008, particularly the articles by
gerberb
and Davidson.
Caldera did indeed have the intention of open sourcing everything
(under Ransom Love), then bad economic figures came in, and Darl took over with
a radical change in strategy (as we all know).
Add in that the initial
Love's optimism had to be tempered by IBM's realism of the multiple encumbrances
of the code to delay the joint release and you get a sad fateful picture. It
also seems Darl inherited Ransom's misunderstanding on the actual ownership of
the code: not only it wasn't Caldera's, but neither it is Novell's probably (as
there are many external contributors). That explains the ill advised license
given by SCO to Sun to allow them to opensource Solaris (and which might still
come back to haunt them if any of the many contributors decided to sue
them).
Indeed it was all ready and set, and but for a couple of weeks it
might have been open sourced (under Caldera's responsability and probably with
applause by all involved)... but it wasn't. A declaration saying you are
thinking of doing something is not the same as actually doing it, as we have
discussed over and over with the APA: until the actual written copyright
transfer/change is signed it amounts to nothing.
If it worked against
SCO in SCO vs.IBM it also certainly works against us in Caldera not finally
GPL'ing UNIX sources.
A few weeks... sad indeed.
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| Authored by: IMANAL_TOO on Tuesday, March 03 2009 @ 06:12 AM EST |
SCO (then Caldera) was actively sponsoring open source in 2001. Here is an
excerpt from a press release at HP:
New Members, $24
Million in Funding Mark Opening of Industry Linux Lab
PORTLAND, Ore.,
Jan. 24, 2001
The industry's first independent, non-profit lab designed for
developers who are adding new business-oriented capabilities to Linux* and
Linux-based software opened today with the support of 19 sponsor companies and
more than $24 million in funding.
The Open Source Development Lab™
(OSDL), an 11,000-square-foot computing center in the high-tech district west of
Portland, Ore., provides Linux and open source developers with access to
high-end enterprise hardware and an open forum where they can build and test
software for powerful servers and business computing
environments.
Computer Associates, Fujitsu and Hitachi today joined
original lab sponsors Hewlett-Packard Company, Intel Corporation, IBM and NEC
Corporation in supporting the lab. Miracle Linux, Mitsubishi and Covalent joined
original members Caldera, Dell, Linuxcare, LynuxWorks, Red Hat, SGI, SuSE,
TurboLinux and VA Linux as additional contributors and sponsors. The lab is
managed by an independent board and officers, as well as a full-time director
and staff.
But, that was then and memory is
short for some.
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| Authored by: DaveJakeman on Tuesday, March 03 2009 @ 01:36 PM EST |
Here is an interview
Steven Vaughan-Nichols did with Ronsom Love, published on
2003-09-25.
Snippet:
Love: Clearly, when we acquired SCO and
Unix, our intention was to see how Unix could expand and extend Linux. In a lot
of technologies, Linux was going in slightly different ways, but we thought Unix
was the natural companion to it.
We took the Linux code that was available
and learned to cleanly match it with the Unix APIs. The idea was to adopt Linux
APIs and mechanisms to function on top of a scalable Unix code designed for SMP
[symmetric multiprocessing]. At the time, Linux was moving to clustering to make
Linux more scalable. We wanted to combine Unixs improved symmetric
multiprocessing with Linux so that it would have both excellent clustering and
SMP.
Indeed, at first we wanted to open-source all of Unixs code, but we
quickly found that even though we owned it, it was, and still is, full of other
companies copyrights.
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| Authored by: sproggit on Tuesday, March 03 2009 @ 03:06 PM EST |
No regular reader of this forum can be in any doubt as to the amazing work that
PJ has done in bringing this sort of information to light. The rest of the
Groklaw community has been equally supportive and provided a vast amount of
additional material.
I've watched with a little disappointment at the lack of use we've seen made of
some of our better collaborations. Thing is, this is mighty important stuff.
In the past we've seen the FSF petition a court to file an amicus brief (hope
that's the correct term) or similar supporting document in an on-going case.
Serious question folks... if it wouldn't be considered impolite by the
Honourable Judge K... is there any way that Groklaw could do something similar
hear?
Just a thought...[ Reply to This | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, March 03 2009 @ 03:27 PM EST |
I know the allegations of infringed code were whittled down to almost nothing.
If I recall correctly (it has been some time, after all), what was left was
mostly pieces of various headers that might well be found in unix utilities like
these.
So, do these tools contain all or some of the the allegedly infringing code?
Second, can IBM use this information in court?
I'm wondering if a deadline has past that would preclude this information from
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| Authored by: sk43 on Wednesday, March 04 2009 @ 07:36 PM EST |
Why did SCO open-source "grep" and "awk", but not
"sed". In the words of a typical tutorial writer:
http://www.securitydocs.com/pdf/3489.PDF
"It is quite common to use awk, sed and grep all together."
And that's only the start. "Some other useful tools are tr, cut, head,
tail and wc."
Get with it SCO, when are these going to be released?
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