[HiTech RedNeck]

OK, the lwn link is accessible now. I'm cornfused... is this code part of BSD? The lwn article says that Caldera released it, not under BSD itself, but under a BSD-style license, which is totally free but also requires that copyright credit be given to Caldera. If this is so and Linux didn't give this copyright credit, then it could be in trouble for this one after all.

[justlurking]

Yes, the code was already in BSD. I believe that Caldera copied it from BSD, then released it again under the BSD license.

Under your interpretation, I would expect a consent agreement to restore the copyright notice (which is similar to what happened between BSD and USL/AT&T). But, it hardly supports SCO's claims of misappropriation of proprietary code.