SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux

SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux

Posted Jul 21, 2003 20:01 UTC (Mon) by dkite (guest, #4577)
Parent article: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux

I think SCO is making a grave mistake here.

Up till now there has been alot of very hot air with regards to linux itself. Now they
are claiming ownership of the whole thing, going to do a binary package of it, and
license it. Included in linux is a huge body of code that clearly doesn't belong to
them, is clearly licensed, clear as to provenance, and clearly owned by the various
kernel hackers. They are including that in the license, or they must be, since a
binary linux to work (if it is actually linux) must include them.

Are they assuming that the developers will be happy with a portion of the take?
Or are they assuming that they don't care about their property which they
licensed under the GPL?

What will the reaction be if say, Al Viro, announces that the binary linux is ok as
long as it doesn't have any of his bio code in it? Or Linus says it's ok as long as
none of his code is in it? Etc. There won't be a whole lot left, I think.

Or maybe someone will call the prosecutor about a theft.

Derek

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