Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now

From: Brian McGroarty (brian_at_mcgroarty.net)
Date: 07/22/03

  • Next message: Ron Johnson: "Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now" 
    Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:32:05 -0500
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 06:25:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
    > On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:03:55PM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
    > > This Slashdot story
    > > (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/21/1516240&mode=thread&tid=130&tid=185&tid=187&tid=190&tid=88)
    > > references this Yahoo! story (http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030721/lam075_1.html)
    > > where they talk about this:
    > >
    > > "... it will offer UnixWare? licenses tailored to support run-time, binary use
    > > of Linux ..." (quoted from the Yahoo! article.
    > >
    > > Any ideas is this will actually go through? What will Debian do about it?
    >
    > Er, almost certainly ignore it until a real judgement is issued on the
    > SCO/IBM lawsuit. There's no point stirring more than necessary.

    SCO has made no claims against the 2.2 kernels.

    If worst comes to worst and SCO finally show some incriminating code
    in 2.4, stepping back to 2.2 until the relevant bits are purged from
    2.4 is all anyone should need to do to cover their assets in countries
    where this becomes an issue.

    AC maintains functional backports of all the important bits, so few PC
    Linux users should be significantly affected by an (IMHO) unlikely
    judgement in SCO's favor. If you maintain a large number of systems
    professionally with 2.4, an advance test of 2.2 might be prudent.

    Embedded folks and folks on brand new platforms might need to prepare
    differently, but *please* do your research now! The worst case
    outcome, however unlikely, is that 2.4 does turn out to be an issue
    for a while. You don't want your boss hedging a bet by buying a bunch
    of SCO licenses -- additional terms in the acquired SCO licenses might
    bite you later even after 2.4 is cleared of alleged infringement. 

    -- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
  • Next message: Ron Johnson: "Re: [OT] SCO is going all out now"