Leonard den Ottolander staggered into view and mumbled: > Not exactly. They are trying to get people to pay for their IP they > claim slipped into Linux (and was overseen by both Caldera and SCO for > years). A little like SuSE making people pay for their installer > (YaST). Big difference is that we know where YaST came from but have no > clue about the IP SCO wants to license.
But the problem is that this supposed IP is part of the kernel, (which is licensed under the GPL) and that SCO has distributed this kernel (under the GPL) for years, knowing that this IP was there, (Whether it is or not). This makes SCO automatically bound by the terms of the GPL, which states that any sublicense of all or part of the program that is licensed under the GPL must be compatible with the GPL. The SuSE example of YaST is different, because of the fact that YaST is actually a SEPARATE program and is NOT part of the Linux kernel or any other open-source licensed software. Lorenzo Prince happy Red Hat 9 user ;) -- Linux! Guerrilla UNIX Development Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus. (By [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark A. Horton KA4YBR) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
