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SCO is not SO dumbSCO is not SO dumbPosted Jul 20, 2003 12:00 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252)Parent article: SCO readies new Linux licensing program (InfoWorld)
Heh. You are overlooking one small detail: then can sell you licence for "SCO's IP included in Linux". Even if there are no SCO's IP in Linux in first place (though in this case RICO will bite them... eventually). They can not and thus will not sell you "License for Linux" - they know such license will be illegal. More: they can not and thus will not sell such a license to Linux distributors - this will be illegal as well. But they can and looks like will sell license to end users. So you can buy Linux from RedHat (never bought license and has rights to distribute Linux under GPL) and license from SCO (does not distribute anything under GPL and does not care) and be "in the clear": you'll lose rights to redistribute Linux as per GPL but nothing in GPL says you'll lose rights to run it. The only problem: they can not sell license to distributors (this will invalidate their copyright and make Linux distribution illegal) so only end users will be in the clear ...
And what can be done about that ? Who knows: I'm not layer - it's not clear what can be done till it's proven that there are no SCO's trade secrets in Linux. After - it's obviously illegal extortion, before - unclear. So in SCO's interests is to make this process go on forever. Very clever... We'll need to see actual licensing terms to see if it's illegal already though.
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Does SCO expect that end users will be SO dumb? Posted Jul 20, 2003 14:55 UTC (Sun) by NZheretic (guest, #409) [Link] The SCO Group might have stood a chance had it not sold and distributed the GPL'ed binaries and source code to the Linux Kernel. Once The SCO did distribute, they forfeited the right to impose any further restriction of the source use under the GPL than what is granted by the GPL license.
Does SCO expect that end users will be SO dumb? Posted Jul 21, 2003 11:07 UTC (Mon) by danam (guest, #13082) [Link] So how about PUBLICLY revoking SCO's right touse the GPL'd Linux Kernel. That would kind of halt their "we-are-the-safe-linux" fantasies, not so ?
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