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Story: SCO brings Linux licensing to Europe

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Posted by: Anonymous (Wednesday 14 January 2004, 1:25 PM)

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No copyright law suits yet... and there won't be.

If SCO sue somebody, they will:

1) have to show the code that they have refused to show (which the OS community will then remove).
2) prove that they own the copyrights which Novell is disputing. (Novell have registered the copyrights)

See www.groklaw.com for details.

SCO has been threatening to sue for months but has not.

In its court case with IBM it has been unable so far to claim any copyright infringments which it had said it would be presenting.

OSDL (Open Source Development Labs) have established a fund for supporting users who are sued over things such as copyright infringement.

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