[NCLUG] GPL (related to SCO thread)

Mike Jensen jens001 at comcast.net
Thu Jul 24 21:37:31 MDT 2003


Yes, that is part of the defence of linux.  Although many would say that if 
they did not know this code was in there is just a longer violation of there 
IP.  it is not a full proff defence, but it is an angle they have been 
working.
On Thursday 24 July 2003 18:47, milesd wrote:
> One point I'm not clear on, maybe somebody can help me out.
>
> Caldera (SCO's old name) distributed linux under the GPL (the only way you
> can distribute linux). If that distribution contains any of the code in
> question, didn't they give that code to linux when they distributed it
> under the GPL?
>
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Mike Jensen
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