> > > >+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ >| SCO Attorney Declares GPL Invalid | >| from the look-at-the-silly-monkey dept. | >| posted by michael on Thursday August 14, @14:40 (caldera) | >| http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/14/1521256 | >+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ > >chrullrich writes "According to [0]heise (German, fishbait), SCO's >chief >counsel Mark Heise (unrelated) of [1]Boies, Schiller and Flexner has >declared that the GPL violates the US copyright law and is thus null >and >void. SCO's legal position is actually a little too crazy to believe: >The >GPL allows unlimited copies, the copyright law allows one. Therefore, >the >GPL is invalid. Apparently, they try to argue that the copyright law, >in >giving consumers the right to make one backup of their software without >any permission from the copyright holder, outlaws any contractual >agreement that allows users to make more than one copy." There's an >[2]Inquirer article in English. Apparently SCO is now using the >[3]Chewbacca Defense. Other SCO news: [4]SCO reports a profit, >examining >[5]SCO's contributions to Linux, [6]an attorney summarizes the case. > >Discuss this story at: > http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=03/08/14/1521256 > >Links: > 0. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-14.08.03-000/ > 1. http://www.boies-schiller.com/htm/flash.htm > 2. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11031 > 3. http://www.connect-dots.com/Poofs/chewbacca.html > 4. http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-5063633.html > 5. http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/2003/08/11.html > 6. >http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2914464,00.h >tml
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