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SCO asserted in court documents that IBM has no right to enforce GPL governing Linux; says GPL is
selectively enforced by FSF such that enforcement of GPL by IBM or others is waived.
[Computerworld]
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,86587,00.html
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Linus Weighs in: GPL No Hippie Dream
Column: Linux creator rebuts SCO CEO Darl McBride views on copyright law, were part of open letter
McBride released last week; says GPL has far more in common with US copyright law than McBride
suggests. [Computerworld]
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,87964,00.html
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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]
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1404303,00.asp
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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]
http://www.sco.com/copyright/
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How SCO's Claims on Linux Might Affect Users
For companies nervous over SCO challenge of general public license, the legal foundation for Linux,
the general advice by experts is don't panic. [InternetWeek]
http://www.internetwk.com/breakingNews/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=16000303
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SCO Lawyers Attack GPL License
New twist in case sees SCO claim US Copyright Act preempts, takes priority over, GPL, according to
SCO lawyers, Boies, Schiller & Flexner; Lawrence Rosen, OSDL lawyer, said users face little
risk, predicted problems for SCO. [vnunet.com]
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1143022
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IBM Has No Right to Enforce GPL, Claims SCO
SCO spokesman Blake Stowell says Free Software Foundation is only entity that can enforce GPL, so
IBM is barred from trying to do so with SCO; FSF lawyer Eben Moglen disputes this SCO claim.
[ComputerWeekly.com]
http://www.computerweekly.com/Article126033.htm
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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]
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11134
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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]
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11063
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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]
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11031
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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]
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11057
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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]
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-29-2003/0002025751
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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]
http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2003092901526NWCDLL
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Lawyer Hits Back at SCO's GPL Attack
Eben Moglen, Professor of Law, Columbia University, and FSF lawyer, describes as moonshine SCO
claim that GNU GPL is invalid; SCO argument would, by extension, render Microsoft OEM way of
distributing Windows invalid too. [vnunet.com]
http://www.vnunet.com/News/1143076
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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]
http://theregister.com/content/4/32393.html
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Aiming at the GPL?
According to Mark Heise of Boies, Schiller, & 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]
http://lwn.net/Articles/44902/
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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]
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1123176,00.asp
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SCO Might Recycle AT&T's Unix Blunder
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]
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9952
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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]
http://news.com.com/2100-1016-1016020.html
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