SCO claims 326 source lines

A huge mountain of evidence that Linux violated intellectual property rights in relation to SCO actually turned out to be a small handful, according to a lawyer from IBM , who recently told a federal judge that SCO found only 326 identical lines of code from more than 700 thousand lines of Linux kernel .

In addition, most of these 326 lines were comments, file headers, and other language constructs that are not subject to copyright law — argues David Lawyer (David Marriott), an IBM lawyer.

In 2003, SCO director Darl McBride (Darl McBride) publicly stated that SCO has a lot of evidence that proves that Linux is a direct descendant of Unix. Marriott found fault with this statement at the March 7 hearing:

They claimed their rights to a million lines of Linux code, but in the end we only have 326 lines of code for which SCO has rights. After that, they lay claim to the technology, apparently owned by others.

According to the dry text of Groklaw , out of the 326 controversial lines, 121 one was the #define directive, which serves to replace the frequently used constants, keywords, operators, or expressions with some identifiers. Naturally, its use is not a violation of copyright law.