Controversial Code
At a reseller show in August 2003, SCO revealed a sample of alleged copied code. This was later shown to be originally released under a BSD License.
The code (atealloc) has been in the IA-64 version of Linux for a short period of time. It is no longer in Linux after having been removed on July 4, 2003, since far superior alternatives existed.
UNIX creator Dennis Ritchie confirmed that either he or Ken Thompson wrote the atealloc code, which is released under the BSD license. It is claimed that SCO removed the original license text from Unix source (such as the Berkeley packet filter), allegedly violating the BSD license.
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