On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:25:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:03:55PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > > This Slashdot story > > (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1516240&mode=thread&tid=130&tid=185&tid=187&tid=190&tid=88) > > references this Yahoo! story (http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030721/lam075_1.html) > > where they talk about this: > > > > "... it will offer UnixWare? licenses tailored to support run-time, binary use > > of Linux ..." (quoted from the Yahoo! article. > > > > Any ideas is this will actually go through? What will Debian do about it? > > Er, almost certainly ignore it until a real judgement is issued on the > SCO/IBM lawsuit. There's no point stirring more than necessary.
SCO has made no claims against the 2.2 kernels. If worst comes to worst and SCO finally show some incriminating code in 2.4, stepping back to 2.2 until the relevant bits are purged from 2.4 is all anyone should need to do to cover their assets in countries where this becomes an issue. AC maintains functional backports of all the important bits, so few PC Linux users should be significantly affected by an (IMHO) unlikely judgement in SCO's favor. If you maintain a large number of systems professionally with 2.4, an advance test of 2.2 might be prudent. Embedded folks and folks on brand new platforms might need to prepare differently, but *please* do your research now! The worst case outcome, however unlikely, is that 2.4 does turn out to be an issue for a while. You don't want your boss hedging a bet by buying a bunch of SCO licenses -- additional terms in the acquired SCO licenses might bite you later even after 2.4 is cleared of alleged infringement. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
