GPL In Court
Posted Jul 3, 2003 5:53 UTC (Thu) by
spitzak (subscriber, #4593)
In reply to:
GPL In Court by mbcook
Parent article:
SCO can not win "SCO vs Linux" case. Seriously.
No, he describes the results accurately. If the GPL "fails" then the code
is protected by copyrights belonging to the original authors. The GPL is
simply an "exception" telling you a special way that you can violate the
copyrights, and if it is removed you have no legal way to violate the
copyrights.
<p>The results would be exactly the same as he stated. SCO and everybody
else would not be allowed to distribute Linux. Only by getting permission
from all the original authors could anybody distribute Linux. SCO would
probably be the last place to get such permission!
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