Imagine if the Wine folks were distributing Microsoft copyrighted DLLS from the Windows distribution. That's the kind of situation we have here
Not Quite... I doesn't sound like they were distributing the SCO libraries, they alegedly copied them to thier new (linux) servers...
It's more like I purchase a copy of windows in order to use the DLL's in my Wine install. As long as it's one license to one use, you'd hope that should be ok... (I realise that the EULAs and the lawyers don't likely agree we me;)
IAANAL, but I think this is a bit of a "SCO" clause... It doesn't say they loose their patent (which ASF obviously has no authority to do), it says that they loose their license for the work (Apache, for instance).
SCO isn't a 'monster' who will demand more once they've devoured Linux. They're litigious bastards, but they know what they have their hooks sunk into.
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Not Quite... I doesn't sound like they were distributing the SCO libraries, they alegedly copied them to thier new (linux) servers...
It's more like I purchase a copy of windows in order to use the DLL's in my Wine install. As long as it's one license to one use, you'd hope that should be ok... (I realise that the EULAs and the lawyers don't likely agree we me ;)
Hey you, second from the far right, Get with the programme!
IAANAL, but I think this is a bit of a "SCO" clause... It doesn't say they loose their patent (which ASF obviously has no authority to do), it says that they loose their license for the work (Apache, for instance).
Don't you mean Litigious Bastards?