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Reports say SCO may have violated GNU General Public License, GPL; eWeek says parts of Linux kernel code were copied into Unix System V source tree by former or current SCO employees. [The Inquirer]

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2. 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]

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3. PR: SCO Says IBM's Amended Complaint, Based on GPL, is Built on a Shaky Foundation

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[Posted August 20, 2003 by corbet] It is time to have a look at some statements by Mark Heise of Boies, Schiller, & Flexner - SCO's outside law firm - which were initially reported in the Wall Street Journal and extensively repeated thereafter. According to Mr. Heise, the General Public
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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]

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4. SCO Says IBM's Amended Complaint, Based on GPL, is Built on a Shaky Foundation

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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]

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SCO Says IBM's Amended Complaint, Based on GPL, is Built on a Shaky Foundation SCO Company logo. (PRNewsFoto)[TC] LINDON, Utah, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc. ) today made the following announcement: On Friday, September 26, IBM filed an amendment to its legal complaint
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5. SCO Does Neat U-turn on GPL

Reader email shows that SCO-Caldera changed their policy about GPL quickly, documents this with quote from SCO website: this material is provided AS-IS and at no charge. [The Inquirer]

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6. SCO to Argue General Public License Invalid

Today's Wall Street Journal quotes SCO outside lawyer Mark Heise saying GPL is preempted by US federal copyright law; GPL license lets software and work derived from it be copied by anyone at no charge. [The Inquirer]

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7. SCO's Own Pages Suggest GPL Knowledge

Reader letters with links and quotes from SCO website showing SCO use of GPL principles, with some insightful comments. [The Inquirer]

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8. SCO Defies Logic by Selling Samba under Invalid GPL

Samba team issued statement on SCO including Samba in its latest release of Unixware. Samba is distributed under GNU GPL. For SCO to keep using open source software when attacking others for such is hypocrisy. [The Inquirer]

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9. 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]

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Open Letter on Copyrights
Open Letter on Copyrights Since last March The SCO Group ("SCO") has been involved in an increasingly rancorous legal controversy over violations of our UNIX intellectual property contract, and what we assert is the widespread presence of our copyrighted UNIX code in Linux. These controversies will

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10. 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]

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