SCO readies new Linux licensing program (InfoWorld) [LWN.net]

SCO readies new Linux licensing program (InfoWorld)

Posted Jul 19, 2003 16:36 UTC (Sat) by bret (guest, #13048)
Parent article: SCO readies new Linux licensing program (InfoWorld)

Gosh, this looks an awful lot like paying protection money to the mob. "Give us money you don't owe us and we won't attack you."

SCO provided it's own distro of GNU/Linux, released under the same GPL. How ingenuous, to now claim it's their proprietary property. Were they lying then, or now? Can't both be true.

Before that, the ATT/UC Berkeley court case settlement severed the connection between the free Unix code and the commercial stream, and pointed out some in the commercial stream was taken from the free stream.

http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html
http://sco.iwethey.org/

Fame lasts 15 minutes, infamy lasts a bit longer...

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SCO readies new Linux licensing program (InfoWorld)

Posted Jul 20, 2003 4:21 UTC (Sun) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

I dont' think Caldera Linux was licensed under GPL as a whole. Sure, it included components under the GPL and took advantage of the permission to distribute the code under the GPL. But I don't think the license for the distribution as a whole, if it existed at all, was GPL.

SCO readies new Linux licensing program (InfoWorld)

Posted Jul 20, 2003 16:37 UTC (Sun) by LinuxLobbyist (guest, #6541) [Link]

That's somewhat irrelevent. The code in question (at least, currently) is only in the Linux kernel. I'm sure you'd find (though I haven't checked), that the kernel included in Caldera's distribution did include a copy of the GPL and indicated that it applied to the *kernel* as a whole.