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Story: SCO to attack validity of Linux licence

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Even if one would accept the absurdity that the right to make one copy is a maximum (in contast to its obvious intent of protecting against efforts to forbid users from making any backups at all), SCO still loses. At most, such a restriction can apply only to those licensed merely as users, not to those licensed as distributors.

The GPL is, by nature, a license to distribute, not a license to use. According to the GPL, mere users do not have to accept the GPL since they have not signed it, but accepting the GPL is the only way to have legal authority to distribute GPLed code to others. If it is a violation of copyright law for Free Software authors to grant third parties the right to copy and redistribute their code, SCO's licenses allowing Sun, IBM, HP, and various others to distribute and sell their own versions of Unix must be considered equally a violation of copyright law.

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