SCO License Fees Would Hurt Linux Market (ZDNet)

SCO License Fees Would Hurt Linux Market (ZDNet)

Posted Jul 24, 2003 16:53 UTC (Thu) by edmundo (guest, #616)
Parent article: SCO License Fees Would Hurt Linux Market (ZDNet)

If you need a licence from SCO, then you also need a licence from everyone who has contributed GPL code to Linux, because code that requires a licence from SCO is incompatible with GPL code. If you obtain a licence from SCO without obtaining a licence from Linus, Alan Cox et al, then you might just make things worse for yourself because you will then be knowingly infringing the copyrights of Linus, Alan Cox et al.

Unless SCO are offering to indemnify you against copyright claims by anyone who has contributed to Linux it might be safer to just ask SCO to identify their code so that you can delete it.

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