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August 10, 2010
The Code That Violates SCO's Copyright: What Is Plagiarism In Programming?
By Michael Marr
The ongoing battle of SCO versus the Unix and Linux world continues, and has been a topic of conversation here at unixpronews.com. However, the comments on a unrelated case decision (but related in terms of particular legal definitions that could be applied to some of SCO's cases) has spawned another heated discussion in the comments on what is copyright violation in coding.

In these comments, Kevin McBride, legal counsel for SCO, published a list of code that SCO claimed IBM violated with their versions of *nix operating systems. It seems to be a pretty weak assertion, as a view of the code reveals various blocks of somewhat generic code being replicated, i.e. tab-409. Kevin McBride claims that there is a significant amount of code that cannot be released, as it was given to the Court and parties involved with a strict non-disclosure order, protecting vital IBM code. If the code in what is not able to be released is comparable to the code being released here, then it seems like SCO's claims are severely lacking.

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