SCO says proprietary source code underlying Unix has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel. SCO critics argue that because the company shipped a Linux product under an open-source license ...

SCO Group says copyrighted code has made its way into Linux, the popular open-source OS. If true, the open-source community could find its hard-won gains threatened.

Responding to doubts about its claim that its Unix source code was illegally incorporated into Linux by IBM, SCO put some of the actual code in question on display for Unix conference attendees ...

Though software developers generally understood that source code from one of the major variants of Unix, called the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), could be freely redistributed in the Linux ...

With copyrights in hand, SCO said it will authorize companies to run binary code and applications based on Linux 2.4x kernels and higher only if they license SCO's UnixWare proprietary operating ...

It compared source code from the Unix System V release 4.1 software that SGI has licensed from SCO with a version of the Linux kernel released this June, SGI said.

Companies using open-source software must confirm that the binary code is compiled from the provided source without any additions or modifications.

Novell Inc. is reasserting the claim that it, and not The SCO Group Inc., owns the copyright to the Unix System V source code that has been at the heart of a protracted dispute between SCO and the ...

The software giant will license the rights to Unix technology from SCO Group, a move that could dramatically impact the battle between Windows and Linux.

SCO says proprietary source code underlying Unix has been illegally copied into the Linux kernel.

It compared source code from the Unix System V release 4.1 software that SGI has licensed from SCO with a version of the Linux kernel released this June, SGI said.