SCO Announces Intellectual Property License for Linux

From: David (thunderbolt01_at_netscape.net)
Date: 08/05/03 

Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:56:32 GMT

SCO Provides Commercial Linux Users With Run-Time, Binary License
to Run SCO's Intellectual Property in Linux

     The SCO Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SCOX), the owner and licensor
of the core UNIX(R) operating system source code, today announced
the availability of the SCO Intellectual Property License for
Linux(R). The run-time license permits the use of SCO's
intellectual property, in binary form only, as contained in Linux
distributions. By purchasing a SCO Intellectual Property
License, customers avoid infringement of SCO's intellectual
property rights in Linux 2.4 and Linux 2.5 kernels. Because the
SCO license authorizes run-time use only, customers also comply
with the General Public License, under which Linux is distributed.

     SCO announced in July that it had registered the copyrights
to its software releases of UNIX System V and UnixWare(R) with
the U.S. Copyright office and that it would offer licenses to
cure the SCO IP infringement issues for Linux operating systems.
  Beginning this week, SCO will start meeting with commercial
Linux customers to present the details of this right to use SCO
intellectual property binary licensing program.

Pricing and Availability
     SCO will be offering an introductory license price of $699
for a single CPU system through October 15th, 2003. Pricing for
multiple CPU systems, single CPU add-ons, desktop systems and
embedded systems will also be available.

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