[CS-FSLUG] IBM threatens SCO with GPL hearing

[Fred Miller]

"SCO has literally copied more than 783,000 lines of code from these sixteen 
packages of IBM's copyrighted material. As a result of SCO's copying and 
distribution of IBM's code, SCO has unlawfully exercised IBM's rights to its 
works, and therefore infringed IBM's copyrights."

So the guts of the claim are copyright infringement, but the interesting 
threat here is that the GPL might finally be ruled on in federal court. The 
IBM legal beagles continue:

"Although IBM's contributions to Linux are copyrighted, they are permitted to 
be copied, modified and distributed by others under the terms of the GNU 
General Public License ("GPL") or the GNU Lesser General Public License 
("LGPL") (collectively, the "GPL"). However, SCO has renounced, disclaimed 
and breached the GPL and therefore the GPL does not give SCO permission or a 
license to copy and distribute IBM's copyrighted works."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/19/ibm_sco_gpl/

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