Open Directory - Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Unix: SCO: Boycott, Lawsuits: GNU GPL

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An Open Letter from Darl McBride - CEO issues another open letter; challenges legal status of GPL with what SCO says are legal precedents that will terminate the idea of copyleft. [SCO] (December 04, 2003)
SCO Group Launches Broadside against GPL - Open letter by CEO Darl McBride gives view on key issue of US copyright law versus GNU GPL; warns that current legal controversies will rage for at least another 18 months, until original case against IBM goes to trial. [eWeek] (December 04, 2003)
PR: SCO Says IBM's Amended Complaint, Based on GPL, is Built on a Shaky Foundation - SCO response to IBM countersuit; GPL never faced full legal test, SCO says it will fall in court; SCO continues to base its legal claims on well-settled United States contract and copyright laws. Forum comments. [Linux Today] (September 29, 2003)
SCO Says IBM's Amended Complaint, Based on GPL, is Built on a Shaky Foundation - SCO press release says nothing about IBM description of SCO conduct; but instead attacks GPL as, in part, created by Free Software Foundation to supplant current US copyright laws. [PR Newswire] (September 29, 2003)
Aiming at the GPL? - According to Mark Heise of Boies, Schiller, and Flexner; SCO outside law firm, GNU GPL, by which Linux kernel and much other code is licensed, is invalid due to being preempted by US copyright law. Forum comments. [LWN: Linux Weekly News] (August 21, 2003)
The GPL Will Win, Claims Law Prof - Eben Moglen, Professor of Law, Columbia University, FSF pro bono general counsel for last decade, says no need to fear GPL being tested in US Court, astonished by latest SCO legal tactic to reject GPL validity. [The Register] (August 19, 2003)
Did SCO Open Unix Source Code? - Some organizations argue SCO shipping a Linux product undermines its current attack on Linux intellectual property underpinnings; SCO says argument baseless; issue spotlights key tenet of GPL governing Linux kernel. [CNET News.com] (June 11, 2003)
Did SCO Violate the GPL? - Some open source community members claim SCO violated GNU GPL by copying source code from Linux kernel into SCO Unix Linux Kernel Personality feature without releasing changes publicly or showing attribution copyright notice. [eWeek] (June 10, 2003)

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