[CS-FSLUG] IBM threatens SCO with GPL hearing
Fred Miller
fmiller at lightlink.com
Fri Aug 20 00:37:48 CDT 2004
"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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