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BusinessWeek: Linus Torvalds: SCO Is “Just Too Wrong”

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“Q: SCO claims that old Unix files it says it owns are
now in Linux. Can you explain to me why you think that’s
wrong?

“A: [A number of files SCO claims to own] were
written from scratch for Linux…. SCO also doesn’t hold any
copyrights to the BSD code [software developed at the University of
California at Berkeley that SCO says contained copyrighted material
that was passed on to Linux], nor is it actually in [SCO’s version
of Unix]. So SCO is wrong.

“Also, SCO has apparently several times mentioned how copyright
notices have been removed. Just for the record: Original Unix
doesn’t have any copyright notices to remove. They were added after
a lawsuit [between the Berkeley developers and AT&T, which was
settled]. So SCO would be wrong again…”


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