Talk:Lxrun
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Lxrun is a layer sitting on top of SCO's Unix that allows it to run Linux binaries natively. It's debated about because of the SCO-IBM litegation for various reasons. Mostly because:
- It was released by SCO and ported to other operating systems by non-SCO folk. Which means that contested methods and concepts like the ELF headers were released by SCO.
- It's not unthinkable that it contains GPL'ed Linux code, which means that SCO would be violating the GPL. AFAIK Lxrun is closed source software, though it's source was used outside SCO presumably under NDA.
This page is currently linked from Groklaw. I hope someone from there will improve this lxrun article significantly. I suggest to postpone the speedy deletion by a few days. If no-one had improved it by them, get rid of it. -- Sander Marechal
- It got speedied, but I recreated a new version that's written a bit more encyclopedically. And has the rather extensive Groklaw article as its reference. As far as I recall, it hasn't actually been mentioned in the SCO case, though there's been extensive conjecture and investigation on Groklaw - if I'm wrong, we need references. But for the moment, we have a decent stub here, we can let the article grow properly - David Gerard 22:57, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
