On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 21:46:53 +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Does the Debian project have a stance on the SCO issue? If so which > one? Since we still distribute the Linux kernel, I guess that we > don't believe that it infringes SCO's alleged intellectual property.
To the best of my knowledge, the issue so far consists of allegations and rumors from a company that's far along the way to obsolescence. They have yet to produce anything that could be remotely considered evidence, while there have been concrete indications of SCO itself violating the GPL by the inclusion of GPLed filesystem code from the Linux kernel into its proprietary (Unixware?) kernel. My stance, which I suspect is shared by many in the project, is that SCO has never quite been a friend of the free software community and has now decided on a business/exit strategy that makes it a clear enemy of our community. As such, I hope IBM (the defendant in the lawsuit) will have the backbone not to chose the easy way out (e.g. buying SCO or settle financially) but to pursue the issue to its limit (i.e. disprove the allegations that GNU/Linux has been tainted by Unix intellectual property) and put SCO out of its misery by crushing it. Ray -- First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win. - Gandhi
