SCO claimed the infringements are divided into four separate categories: literal copying, obfuscation, derivative works, and non-literal transfers.
[citation needed] These analyses also pointed out that while the code could possibly have originated in Unix, this does not necessarily prove infringement of copyrights.
The community was determined that this was a particularly bad example, because the code in question had never been used in the mainstream distributions of Linux, and had been present only in the IA-64 version.
I know that the comments that first appeared by the 6th edition were definitely written by me, since I spent some time annotating the almost comment-free earlier editions.This is very important, because early Unix source code does not have any copyright claim.
In it, Rich Altmaier, vice president of software, claims that these small code fragments were inadvertently included in the Linux kernel: All together, these three small code fragments comprised no more than 200 lines out of the more than one million lines of our overall contributions to Linux.