SCO did sell/distribute Linux ? [LWN.net]

SCO did sell/distribute Linux ?

Posted Aug 7, 2003 15:19 UTC (Thu) by philips (guest, #937)
In reply to: SCO did sell/distribute Linux ? by Highlander
Parent article: The text of SCO's "Linux license"

It would be interesting to see how this wil work.
It is going to be hard time for SCO to prove that you have to buy second license to use their product.
First license you can wget from ftp.caldera.com. And first license - in fact GPL - prohibit any second linceses or what ever.

Interesting dialog between imaginary customer and SCO:
SCO: buy license - you do not have license to use our product.
Customer: No. You gave us a license some time ago!
SCO: What kind of fu@#$%^&*ing license you are talking about?
Customer:
$ rpm -qpi linux-2.4.13-21S.src.rpm | egrep "License|Vendor"
Vendor: Caldera International, Inc.
License: GPL

And this "viral" license says that no-one can change it or put any other restrictions on sources and binaries. And this license has no clause for revocation niether.
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No comments.

P.S. ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenLinux/3.1.1/Server/current/

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SCO did sell/distribute Linux ?

Posted Aug 7, 2003 15:39 UTC (Thu) by forthy (guest, #1525) [Link]

> And this license has no clause for revocation niether.

Actually, the GPL has a revocation clause. If you break it (like SCO's doing now with
requiring a second license), you lose the right to do the things the GPL entitles you, e.g.
putting Linux sources on a web server (something SCO still does). None of your licensees
do lose theirs, since they received a license from the original authors.