On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:11, dep wrote: > SCO Says IBM's Amended Complaint, Based on GPL, is Built on a Shaky > Foundation > > LINDON, Utah-September 29, 2003-The SCO Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOX) > today made the following announcement: > > On Friday, September 26, IBM filed an amendment to its legal complaint > against The SCO Group. In this amended complaint IBM asserts that SCO > has violated the GNU General Public License (GPL), and based on this > violation has then violated certain IBM copyrights. IBM, not SCO, has > brought the GPL into the legal controversy between the two companies. > SCO believes that the GPL -- created by the Free Software Foundation to > supplant current U.S. copyright laws -- is a shaky foundation on which > to build a legal case. By contrast, SCO continues to base its legal > claims on well-settled United States contract laws and United States > copyright laws. > > The GPL has never faced a full legal test, and SCO believes that it will > not stand up in court. We are confident that SCO will win the legal > battle that IBM has now started over the GPL. By so strongly defending > the controversial GPL, IBM is also defending a questionable licensing > scheme through which it can avoid providing software indemnification > for its customers. We continue to urge IBM to provide legal > indemnification for its Linux customers.
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