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Answering SCO Bit by Bit - more a.out.h and errno.h and elf.h, this time in OpenLinux 1.3
Groklaw member valerio checked the contents of Caldera Systems OpenLinux 1.3, a CD from 1998, and you'll never guess what he found. Yes, friends, the CD contains, in the archive file col/install/RPMS/linux-kernel-include-2.0.35-1.i386.rpm, two files SCO claims are infringing if placed in Linux:
/include/linux/a.out.h
and
/ include/asm-i386/errno.h
This is the second time we've caught SCO/Caldera distributing these two files in a Caldera distribution under the GPL, despite its claim that it never authorized them to be in Linux or under the GPL. The first was copyrighted 2000, two years before this instance valerio found. What? Inadvertent twice? As you will see, they put the files there themselves. In Linux. Under the GPL. And now they want to sue people using Linux because they are in there.

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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN

elf_getbase

elf_getbase(3ELF)					       ELF Library Functions						 elf_getbase(3ELF)

NAME

       elf_getbase - get the base offset for an object file

SYNOPSIS

       cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lelf [ library ... ]
       #include <libelf.h>

       off_t elf_getbase(Elf *elf);

DESCRIPTION

       The  elf_getbase()  function returns the file offset of the first byte of the file or archive member associated with elf, if it is known or
       obtainable, and -1 otherwise. A null elf is allowed, to simplify error handling; the return value in this case is -1. The base offset of an
       archive member is the beginning of the member's information, not the beginning of the archive member header.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Stable			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |MT-Level		     |MT-Safe			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ar.h(3HEAD), elf(3ELF), elf_begin(3ELF), libelf(3LIB), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    11 Jul 2001 						 elf_getbase(3ELF)