SCO now willfully violating GPL

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2003-10-31 11:04am

Slashdot link
The Register link
SCO link

Basically, SCO is now distributing Linux under their own license that honors "their" IP "rights." As CmdrTaco remarked on Slashdot, it's time for every Linux kernel developer to start sending them cease-and-desist letters...

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-10-31 11:21am

What fun!

aronkerkhof · Post by **aronkerkhof** » 2003-10-31 01:11pm

One of Mike's classic quotes comes to mind: "They're suffering shall be legendary." If they are right about the GPL being invalid, unconstitutional, whatever, then all that code revert back to the original authors, and that for the most part is NOT SCO.

Unless, they are going to try to argue that all GPL developers are "tainted" by SCO's unix source code, or that the licenses revert to public domain. Who knows? They probably don't even know.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2003-11-01 12:56am

Ooooh, they're gonna get it now.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2003-11-01 06:42am

aronkerkhof wrote:....Unless, they are going to try to argue that all GPL developers are "tainted" by SCO's unix source code, or that the licenses revert to public domain. Who knows? They probably don't even know.

but even then it still belongs to Novell.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2003-11-01 02:04pm

If SCO is a smarmy Redshirt, the Open Source community will be El Tee Hit-Man on SCO's ass!

Not that they didn't deserve the thrashing anyway