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SCO Might Recycle AT&T's Unix Blunder Reports say SCO may have violated GNU General Public License, GPL; eWeek says parts of Linux kernel code were copied into Unix System V source tree by former or current SCO employees. [The Inquirer] http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9952 Theinquirer.net  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   Aiming at the GPL? According to Mark Heise of Boies, Schiller, and Flexner; SCO outside law firm, GNU GPL, by which Linux kernel and much other code is licensed, is invalid due to being preempted by US copyright law. Forum comments. [LWN: Linux Weekly News] http://lwn.net/Articles/44902/ Lwn.net  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   PR: SCO Says IBM's Amended Complaint, Based on GPL, is Built on a Shaky Foundation SCO response to IBM countersuit; GPL never faced full legal test, SCO says it will fall in court; SCO continues to base its legal claims on well-settled United States contract and copyright laws. Forum comments. [Linux Today] http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2003092901526NWCDLL Linuxtoday.com  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   SCO Says IBM's Amended Complaint, Based on GPL, is Built on a Shaky Foundation SCO press release says nothing about IBM description of SCO conduct; but instead attacks GPL as, in part, created by Free Software Foundation to supplant current US copyright laws. [PR Newswire] http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-29-2003/0002025751 Prnewswire.com  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   SCO Does Neat U-turn on GPL Reader email shows that SCO-Caldera changed their policy about GPL quickly, documents this with quote from SCO website: this material is provided AS-IS and at no charge. [The Inquirer] http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11057 Theinquirer.net  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   SCO to Argue General Public License Invalid Today's Wall Street Journal quotes SCO outside lawyer Mark Heise saying GPL is preempted by US federal copyright law; GPL license lets software and work derived from it be copied by anyone at no charge. [The Inquirer] http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11031 Theinquirer.net  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   SCO's Own Pages Suggest GPL Knowledge Reader letters with links and quotes from SCO website showing SCO use of GPL principles, with some insightful comments. [The Inquirer] http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11063 Theinquirer.net  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   SCO Defies Logic by Selling Samba under Invalid GPL Samba team issued statement on SCO including Samba in its latest release of Unixware. Samba is distributed under GNU GPL. For SCO to keep using open source software when attacking others for such is hypocrisy. [The Inquirer] http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11134 Theinquirer.net  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   An Open Letter from Darl McBride CEO issues another open letter; challenges legal status of GPL with what SCO says are legal precedents that will terminate the idea of copyleft. [SCO] http://www.sco.com/copyright/ Sco.com  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check   The GPL Will Win, Claims Law Prof Eben Moglen, Professor of Law, Columbia University, FSF pro bono general counsel for last decade, says no need to fear GPL being tested in US Court, astonished by latest SCO legal tactic to reject GPL validity. [The Register] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/08/19/the_gpl_will_win_claims/ Theregister.co.uk  ~   Site Info   Whois   Trace Route   RBL Check