Culture Clash: SCO, OpenLinux, Linus And The GPL

Posted by timothy on Monday June 23, 2003 @03:06PM 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."

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Re:Not really by zangdesign · 2003-06-23 16:55 · Score: 0, Troll

The primary agency to sue SCO would be the FSF, since Stallman wrote the GPL. I really doubt that Linux dev's would see a cent from this, but Stallman would be incredibly rich all of a sudden.

Damn, I need a few more acronyms to make that totally incomprehensible.

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