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From: Michael Bernstein <michael@seven-angels.net>
To: Gabor MICSKO <gmicsko@szintezis.hu>
Cc: Michael Bernstein <michael@seven-angels.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 13:52:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <141DFFFA-BBA4-11D7-A61F-000A95773C00@seven-angels.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1058807414.513.4.camel@sunshine>


On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 01:10  PM, Gabor MICSKO wrote:
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> http://lwn.net/Articles/40526/
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> interesting.
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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


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-21 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-21 17:10 SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux Gabor MICSKO
2003-07-21 17:52 ` Michael Bernstein [this message]
2003-07-21 18:59   ` Diego Calleja García
2003-07-21 20:09     ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-21 20:36       ` Shawn
2003-07-24 14:52     ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-07-24 15:08       ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-24 15:49         ` Sancar Saran
2003-07-24 19:32           ` Alan Cox
2003-07-25 11:44             ` Sancar Saran
2003-07-24 15:54         ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-07-24 16:01           ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-24 16:17             ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-24 16:39             ` Yuliy Pisetsky
2003-07-24 16:55               ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-24 18:48                 ` nick
2003-07-24 16:52             ` Ian Hastie
2003-07-24 17:22               ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-24 22:52                 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-07-24 17:00             ` David Benfell
2003-07-24 17:34         ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2003-07-24 17:46           ` Shawn
2003-07-24 22:55           ` Jan Harkes
2003-07-24 23:27           ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-07-25 19:29           ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-24 21:03         ` Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra
2003-07-21 17:53 ` Jeff Sipek
2003-07-21 22:35   ` Brian McGroarty
2003-07-22 19:48     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-22  3:41 ` Kurt Wall
2003-07-21 17:24 Mudama, Eric
2003-07-22 23:34 Clayton Weaver
     [not found] <20030724234213.GA20064@work.bitmover.com>
2003-07-25  0:11 ` Michael Bernstein
2003-07-25  0:21   ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-25 12:43     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-25 13:37       ` David S. Miller
2003-07-25 15:09         ` Yaroslav Rastrigin
2003-07-25 15:10           ` David S. Miller
2003-07-25 15:17           ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-25 13:37 Downing, Thomas
2003-07-26  8:21 Anuradha Ratnaweera
2003-07-26 14:49 ` Henrik Persson

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