SCO Now Willfully Violating the GPL

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."

Comments

Re:Hmm.. question..

[BLAG-blast]

I can understand why you would get flamed for that.

and customers of SCO, who could only use it if they were prepared to pay $799 per processor to the Free Software Foundation.

So companies such as IBM, SUN, SGI and dozens of other smaller companies would have to pay $799, per cpu, for Linux license. is that going to help GNU/Linux in any way? For IBM to run Linux on 16,000 processor box would cost almost $13 Million.

Pretty much everybody who has anything to do with "UNIX(tm)" is a customer of SCO. I don't think this is a good idea, infact it would be a very bad thing for linux to do this....

Now, are you sure you got flame, and it wasn't just a bunch of people telling you it was a bad idea?

Re:That's right

[Overly Critical Guy]

Copyright infringement is not theft, because it does not involve taking something off the victim, but instead making an unauthorised copy of something he owns.

Absolutely wrong.

You ARE stealing, because you are not paying the artists the monetary compensation owed to them. You're stealing their money. This is so plainly obvious and yet conveniently ignored.