SCO owns the World? [LWN.net]

SCO owns the World?

Posted Jun 18, 2003 10:53 UTC (Wed) by fatrat (subscriber, #1518)
In reply to: SCO owns the World? by StevenCole
Parent article: SCO owns the World?

There's nothing alleged (or illegal, or wrong) about MS use of
BSD networking code - it's there in the headers. Though of course
you need to buy something like VC++ to see the headers.

The whole point of the BSD license is that it lets you use
BSD code and then sell the resulting product on.

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_License

Arthur

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SCO owns the World?

Posted Jun 18, 2003 14:56 UTC (Wed) by StevenCole (guest, #3068) [Link]

That may be clear to you, me, Microsoft, and the rest of the world, but apparently the ability of SCO to see things differently is unlimited.

From the Byte article:
Byte: "But I thought that Microsoft had signed a license agreement?"
Sontag: "No, Microsoft merely licensed an 'applications interface layer'."

Maybe they're thinking, "Hey, Microsoft has a lot of cash, maybe we can sue them too!"

Now that that would really be fun to watch. Like a Chihuahua picking on a Pit Bull and a Wolverine at the same time.

SCO owns the World?

Posted Jun 19, 2003 22:12 UTC (Thu) by spitzak (subscriber, #4593) [Link]

The point is that SCO could claim the BSD code infringes their copyright,
and thus Microsoft's use of it is illegal. The BSD license does not
protect against this. Otherwise I could steal that new copy of the Harry
Potter book, publish it on the internet, and say "I put it under the BSD
license" and that would somehow protect me and anybody who read it from
the publisher's wrath.