i somehow had a feeling last few weeks that this would be the next step in
the battle of copyright/copyleft.
can almost predict what's gonna happen next as well.
but my mouth is shut.
LL
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SCO Attorney Declares GPL Invalid
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.
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.html
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