On Linux towards mature roads, a reverse step has recently appeared. Linux founder LinustorValds recently announced that a contributing software developer will have to sign and guarantee its originality on the software.
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On Linux towards mature roads, a reverse step has recently appeared. Linux founder LinustorValds recently announced that a contributing software developer will have to sign and guarantee its originality on the software.
This requirement is the developer's original certificate, which is a response to many companies Linux users. These company users are concerned about the problem of this evolutionary operating system is too unformal, and Lack of documents. Analysts pointed out that tracking code origin is critical to avoiding Linux's legal challenges.
In 2003, SCO Group illegally brought UNIX code into Linux, requiring IBM to pay $ 1 billion compensation. The SCO has a UNIX operating system that declares that Linux invades the company's copyright as a modified UNIX. IBM is the main company supporters of Linux. In 1991, Torvalds was a college student in Finland, and he wrote the original core of the Linux operating system, which was subsequently modified and debugged by programmers around the world.
IBM acknowledged that its company's programmers contributed to Linux, IBM argues, they have the right to modify the code. IBM believes that the interpretation of SCO to UNIX copyright is too broad. The court will take this lawsuit next year.
In yesterday released statements, Torvalds claimed that Linux's development programs did not have defects or weaknesses. He regards developers' original proof as a document record with the same assessment and personal responsibility principle for Linux communities. He said that we want to locate the transaction between modifiers and increasing code, just like the signature on your own work. He believes that this approach will make Linux more powerful.
