The text of SCO's "Linux license"

The text of SCO's "Linux license"

Posted Aug 6, 2003 21:54 UTC (Wed) by josh_stern (guest, #4868)
Parent article: The text of SCO's "Linux license"

To summarize: Call S_sco the set off stuff in a compiled Linux
kernel that is "SCO intellectual property in Object Code format",
whatever that is (of course S_sco may be empty). You can pay on a
per cpu basis for the right, as far as SCO is concerned, to run a
Linux kernel containing S_sco at a given fixed price and they promise
to give you a one month notice before they raise the price they are
charging. They make no warranty of anything, even including the
possibility that S_sco may be empty and the possibility that they
will help, say MSFT, to charge for S_msft, or HP to charge for
S_hp, etc. at some later date.

Any lawyer who advises his company to buy this thing, even if he
has a crystal ball and believes SCO will win their case against
either IBM or Redhat, should be sued for malpractice. I think
the case for the conspiracy theory grows stronger because this
reads like something designed to hurt Linux and not something they
seriously expect to generate *any* revenue from.

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