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Culture Clash: SCO, OpenLinux, Linus And The GPL

Posted by timothy on from the what-part-of-non-discriminatory-don't-you-understand dept.

hobsonchoice writes "SCO has issued a letter saying SCO Linux customers won't be sued. The same does not seem to apply if using a non-SCO distribution such as RedHat." LightSail points to the SCO letter itself, and raises an interesting point: "If they approve the use of 'their' IP in Linux in a single kernel, then the GPL holds that IP SCO allows to be used by a select few must be freely released to any and all. It appears that all Linux users everywhere were just given a license to continued use of Linux even if SCO would win their suit with IBM." And Haikuu writes "eWeek recently posted an interview conducted by e-mail exchange with Linus Torvalds regarding his recent move to the OSDL and the SCO suit."

2 of 710 comments (clear)

  1. Re:haiku by j0nkatz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They will dye Linux will live lond and prosper?

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    Don't mod me, bro'!!!!
  2. SCO unixware 7 by pair-a-noyd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Welcome to SCO's UnixWare 7.1.3 download area
    file: ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/713/README

    Located in this directory are patches and supplements
    specific to SCO's UnixWare 7.1.3 product.

    Device Drivers for UnixWare 7.1.3 can be found
    at:

    ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/drivers

    Security patches for UnixWare 7.1.3 can be found at:

    http://www.sco.com/support/security/

    What's New
    ----------
    On 10-MAY-03: ./ptf9000c - xAPIC supplement for support of the
    IBM xSeries 440 and IBM xSeries 360

    ptf9000b - The xAPIC Supplement for IBM xSeries 440 has been
    removed and is superseded by ptf9000c

    On 06-MAY-03: ./uw713pk - This directory contains Maintenance Pack 2 for
    UnixWare 7.1.3

    On 30-APR-03: ./uw713up - This directory contains Update Pack 1 for UnixWare 7.1.3

    DRIVERS:
    -------

    ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/drivers/audio - Audio Drivers
    ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/drivers/g raphics - Graphics Drivers
    ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7/drivers/n etwork - Network Drivers
    ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/unixware7//drivers/ storage - Host Bus Adapters Drivers

    MAJOR SUPPLEMENTS:
    -----------------
    ./uw713pk - UnixWare 7.1.3 Maintenance Pack 2 (posted 06-MAY-03) ./uw713up - UnixWare 7.1.3 Update Pack 1 (posted 30-APR-03)

    Open Source packages
    --------------------
    ./opensrc - This directory contains open source packages
    that have been ported to run on native UnixWare
    and are provided with UnixWare 7.1.3. SCO provides
    these source files in compliance with the GPL License
    for these open source packages.

    PATCHES:
    -------
    Filenames size and sum Title ./ptf9000c - This directory contains the xAPIC Supplement for support of
    the IBM xSeries 440 and IBM xSeries 360

    For: UnixWare 7.1.3
    UnixWare 7.1.3 with UnixWare 7.1.3 Maintenance Pack 1

    Filenames:

    ptf9000c.Z 145401 (09385) pkgadd image
    ptf9000c.boot1.img 1474560 (46172) Boot Image Volume 1
    ptf9000c.boot2.img 1474560 (63300) Boot Image Volume 2
    ptf9000c.txt 3888 (12295) Documentation