News Linux: Whose Kernel Is It?

From Wired:

Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux open-source operating system, has proposed changes to the Linux kernel-development process which he and other developers hope will make it easier to answer any questions about the origin and ownership of Linux source code.

The need to carefully document the development process comes in part from recent legal actions by the SCO Group, which claims that SCO-owned programming code taken from the Unix System V was incorporated illegally into Linux. SCO brought a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against IBM last year, alleging that IBM violated its Unix licensing agreement with SCO by transferring copyright-protected Unix code to the Linux operating system.

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