Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 02, 2003 10:20 AM
No matter what the outcome of this suit is, no one company is going to be collecting a royalty from every copy of Linux sold in the future.
To do so would be imposing an additional restriction not covered by the GPL. This would be a GPL violation, so distribution would not be allowed under those terms.
If SCO's claim has merrit, it will just mean that the Linux kernel will not be distributable until the problem code is excised. Of course, if this is the case, some companies may be liable for past infringements.
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Re:What is Novell's 95% point of view?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 02, 2003 10:20 AMTo do so would be imposing an additional restriction not covered by the GPL. This would be a GPL violation, so distribution would not be allowed under those terms.
If SCO's claim has merrit, it will just mean that the Linux kernel will not be distributable until the problem code is excised. Of course, if this is the case, some companies may be liable for past infringements.
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