[Gllug] SCO again

[Christopher Hunter]

On Monday 11 Aug 2003 10:54 pm, Mike Brodbelt wrote:

> Theoretically, were I to make the assumption (which I don't) that their
> claims had any merit whatsoever, I could grab that SRPM, unpack it,
> apply the kernel.org patches from 2.4.13 to bring it up to 2.4.21, and
> have a source tree where all the disputed code has been distributed to
> me, under the GPL, by the purported copyright holder.

I believe that this has been done by IBM, and will be used against SCO's 
claim.  Every "legal" analysis of the situation I've read suggests that SCO 
haven't got any kind of valid claim, and that it's just background noise we 
can all ignore until it goes away.

Chris 


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