Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:52:21 -0400 | Subject | Re: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux | From | Michael Bernstein <> |
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On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 01:10 PM, Gabor MICSKO wrote: > > http://lwn.net/Articles/40526/ > > interesting. > > -- > Windows not found > (C)heers, (P)arty or (D)ance? > ----------------------------------- > Micskó Gábor > Compaq Accredited Platform Specialist, System Engineer (APS, ASE) > Szintézis Computer Rendszerház Kft. > H-9021 Gyor, Tihanyi Árpád út. 2. > Tel: +36-96-502-216 > Fax: +36-96-318-658 > E-mail: gmicsko@szintezis.hu > Web: http://www.hup.hu > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Very interesting. It'd be interesting to see if they are able to do this and get past the GPL. However, even if they are selling "Sys V" or "Unixware" licenses, it doesn't mean that they have the right to sell Linux licenses.
To put it simply, just because they "may," - and I say may here simply because we have no evidence to prove their claims but cannot flatly deny them - own the rights to Sys V, does NOT mean they own the right to the code that was released under GPL and does NOT give them the right to reassign a license to it.
If I were a lawyer for the FSF, I'd take this opportunity to investigate how they are selling the licenses, and go smash them up...
Michael Bernstein michael AT seven-angels DOT net
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