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SCO Now Willfully Violating the GPL

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the this-just-gets-more-interesting dept.

Pogue Mahone writes "According to The Register, SCO is now distributing Linux code under a more restrictive license than the GPL. This is a violation of copyright, since only the GPL gives them any rights to distribute the code. Time for every single developer who has contributed code to the kernel to send a Cease and Desist letter to SCO."

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  1. Cry me a river by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is a violation of copyright, since only the GPL gives them any rights to distribute the code. Time for every single developer who has contributed code to the kernel to send a Cease and Desist letter to SCO.

    Why aren't you calling for cease and desist letters for music pirates? Why is it OK to violate RIAA company's copyrights but not Linux??

  2. Class Action by Catskul · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    IANAL, but what about a class action suit? Have everyone who has ever submitted any work to the kernel participate.

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  3. Re:That's right by pyrrhonist · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    What you don't realize is that the Japanese were planning on doing the same thing.

    The Japanese used balloons to send bombs filled with biological weapons to the U.S.

    They had a huge biological weapons plant in China, and they used biological weapons on the Chinese - the effects of which are still affecting China.

    They Japanese developed submarines capable of carrying airplanes, and were planning on using them to attack California with biological weapons and spread disease. This would have caused massive loss of life in the U.S. for many years.

    One thing stopped this from happening: the U.S. dropped the bomb and Japan surrended just a few days before the scheduled attack.

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