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slaughters
10-30-2003, 12:39 PM
"SCO Group has filed court documents that challenge the validity of the GPL (GNU General Public License), the software license that governs Linux...The GPL violates the U.S. Constitution, together with copyright, antitrust and export control laws," states SCO in documents filed with the U.S. District Court for Utah"

>>>>>>> Link <<<<<<<<< (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1817&e=1&u=/nf/20031029/tc_nf/22583&sid=96120760)
UrbanFuturistic
10-30-2003, 12:51 PM
Oooooold news. While it's reasonably well known that the GPL has not been challenged in court before this it's simply an attempt by SCO to be allowed to legally incorporate Linux code into their failing HOS UNIX.

regards, Paul
Spankspeople
10-30-2003, 03:03 PM
If the GPL isn't valid they shouldn't have agreed to it in the first place... not to mention that they themselves have been selling a version of Linux under the GPL... Anything in it is covered under the GPL and they don't have a case because they agreed to it. If they hadn't managed to hold off the court date for so long they probably would have already been ordered out of the court for wasting everyone's time. =P
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