The text of SCO's "Linux license"

The text of SCO's "Linux license"

Posted Aug 7, 2003 23:45 UTC (Thu) by seal (guest, #13808)
In reply to: The text of SCO's "Linux license" by mdekkers
Parent article: The text of SCO's "Linux license"

I agree -- this is a "license" which is not licensing anything.
Even a M$ EULA specifies that you are selling your soul for a license to use the software which you are about to install. This "license" specifies no concrete items; it vaguely refers to "intellectual property". For those of you who don't know, "intellectual property" is a management mantra, a catch-phrase. It means absolutely nothing in a court of law (at least not in the US, EU, or Australia). If you ever mentioned "intellectual property" to me, I'd ask you to clarify that -- is this a matter of copyright, patent, or trademark? You have very different rights under copyright/patent/trademark laws -- they are not uniform and can never be referred to as "intellectual property rights".

In short, the "license" is for people who don't know their legal rights but are easily spooked by any threat of litigation. Oh... did I just describe a "shakedown" racket?

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