Good point, Ralf. But from what I read and my understanding deduced from that, the relationship is even more farfetched than the way you described it. SCO never filed, and I believe they dare not to file, lawsuit against Linux. The real lawsuit is against IBM, probably SGI also if not now, on some contract violations.I see that SCO is a sponsor. I wonder if they will want to start charging royalities for it. [...]
Why do you think that a company like SCO has any kind of influence on an Open Source project (and even its users like you) just because the company once has gifted to the project a free OS media kit and related licenses in order to allow the project to port their software onto this OS? I think you have already read a little bit too much about the silly SCO vs. Linux lawsuit and so deduce the wrong things. OpenPKG has as much relationship to SCO as you have relationship to the pope after you once visited a catholic church...
SCO DID claimed the GPL is unenforceable and void. But this claim only affects the way SCO distributes GPL software, not other Open Source software.
In short, you have nothing to worry the Open Source software as long as it is not from SCO. And who would use anything from a doomed provider anyway?
Just my 2c. Not as legal advices in any way.
Liguo (Leo)
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