Will SCO's Suit Chill the Penguin? (E-Commerce Times)
'The GPL issue is something we've just recently been looking at,' SCO spokesperson Blake Stowell told the E-Commerce Times. 'It's been said that maybe we've contributed Unix source code to Linux, because SCO was formerly a distributor of Linux.' However, Stowell said, when the company discovered that its source code had been incorporated into Red Hat Linux, it stopped distributing its own version of Linux and ended any further Linux development. This move, he noted, showed that SCO was acting according to another GPL clause that could shore up its case." It's about time they started thinking about the GPL...
On a similar front, NZheretic's
comment to another LWN article is worth a look for those who haven't
seen it; there's a great deal of detail regarding SCO's involvement in the
Trillian project, which worked to bring Linux to the ia64 processor.
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