IBM Moves To Enforce GPL By Summary Judgement

gvc writes "So much for the GPL 'never being tested in court.' IBM, in its third motion for summary judgement against SCO, is seeking a permanent injunction against SCO's distribution of Linux, on the grounds that SCO has renounced and violated the GPL, and therefore has no right to distribute the 700,000 lines of IBM-copyrighted code therein. As usual, Groklaw broke the story." We previously reported on another IBM summary judgement from earlier this week.

Comments

First post,w00t!

[Anonymous Coward]

Interesting, IBM is using the GPL against SCO. I wonder how all of this will turn out. This could set a precedent for any further trials dealing with the GPL. I'm on IBM's side on this one, although I think SCO's alligations are false anywho.

Re:GPL and Copyright

[tomee]

IF A THEN B, IF NOT A THEn B.

This reduces to just:
B

Mod this up

[Kynde]

sums up the gpl/eula discussion quite nicely

Re:Just Linux?

[quigonn]

I know, but SCO "logic" is weird. Gregory Blepp was also always talking about "non-literal IP transfer", meaning that the algorithms were taken vom SysV to Linux. Of course, there is no law that makes using the same algorithms a crime: neither patent law (since SCO doesn't have a patent on the algorithm), nor copyright law (which is only about literal copying). Another interesting thing he said was that "SCO won't sue companies in Europe, because there, the laws that we need to sue them don't exist _yet_." That was late May this year. I'm pretty sure these laws will _never_ pass, since it would simply be a basic violation of current continental European law concepts.