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IBM files another summary judgment motionIBM files another summary judgment motionPosted Aug 20, 2004 7:04 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)In reply to: IBM files another summary judgment motion by danw6144 Parent article: IBM files another summary judgment motion
> Upon re-evaluation by "new" outside counsel in 2003 SCO discovered that the GPL was "invalid".
So, they are shipping this now:
ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/osr5/vols/
On what grounds exactly? If the licence is in fact invalid, unlawful, unconstitutional and what not, why is the company that is all about the law (SCO) using it for distribution of software that is copyrighted material of FSF and from their own FTP site? Wouldn't you say that using a licence that you know is unlawful is an unlawful act in itself?
BTW, I have personally downloaded Linux kernel from SCO FTP site, covered under the GPL (had the same MD5 as vanilla kernel) *after* they discovered the licence was invalid. So, where did the advice of this "new" counsel go?
> SCO will raise its claims about GPL preemption
Like they presented millions of lines of System V code in Linux? I'm holding my breath...
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