[CS-FSLUG] IBM threatens SCO with GPL hearing

[Christopher Rose]

I hope that this does go to court. The fact is that regardless of whether or not the judge rules in favor of the GPL, it will likely hurt SCO. Regardless, it should prove interesting.

----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:37:48 -0400
To: "CS-FSLUG" <christiansource at ofb.biz>
Subject: [CS-FSLUG] IBM threatens SCO with GPL hearing

> "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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