Is it about the kernel or the full operating system?

Is it about the kernel or the full operating system?

Posted Mar 7, 2003 20:39 UTC (Fri) by ber (subscriber, #2142)
Parent article: A look at the SCO complaint

For the point of the article I think that the distinction between a "full operating" system and a kernel should be made. Actually the GNU/Linux operating system are much more than the kernel. SCO seems to mostly complain about the kernel. (I'm not completely sure.)

Again this shows that it is very important to have the FSF Europe and the FSF who envisoned legal battles like this years before and tried to build up some ways to resist. The FSF always tried to maintain a legal maintainability like through copyright assignments. In this light the new Fiducary License agreement worked out by the FSF Europe seems to be more important than ever. Disclosure: I'm a member of the FSF Europe's coreteam.

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