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OSDL Releases Position Paper on SCO and LinuxOSDL Releases Position Paper on SCO and LinuxPosted Aug 1, 2003 9:31 UTC (Fri) by nowster (subscriber, #67)In reply to: OSDL Releases Position Paper on SCO and Linux by glidentoo Parent article: OSDL Releases Position Paper on SCO and Linux
SCO does not own Linux, no one does. Actually, everyone who has contributed code to Linux owns that part of it, but has granted everyone else the right to use it freely. That's how the GPL works. The GPL is the stone in the stone soup.
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OSDL Releases Position Paper on SCO and Linux Posted Aug 1, 2003 20:41 UTC (Fri) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] >The GPL is the stone in the stone soup.No wonder then, when someone tries to take all of the soup for themselves they find it a bit difficult to swallow... ;-)
OSDL Releases Position Paper on SCO and Linux Posted Aug 4, 2003 14:49 UTC (Mon) by alexs (guest, #13637) [Link] you can not take GPLed Linux code and make up a closed source productout of it - the GPL is not a free license in the end because it does not totally expose its code to unlimited freedom. read the XFree86 license and see why that is a license with more freedom.
OSDL Releases Position Paper on SCO and Linux Posted Aug 6, 2003 1:46 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (subscriber, #7544) [Link] > the GPL is not a free licenseThe GPL prohibits people from taking freedoms away from others. In most developed countries, we are not "free" to own or become slaves. This is not a useful freedom so we trade it for other benefits (the knowledge that we will not be enslaved). The GPL trades away a useless freedom (the freedom to take others freedom) and in return gives us the benefit of lasting freedom, in that it cannot be taken away. Ciaran O'Riordan
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