IBM beats SCO with its own "GPL doesn't matter" club :D

[DaveSimmons]

SCO distributed its own Caldera Linux under the GPL license, which is one of several reasons why its copyright-infringement claims are bogus.

Now SCO is claiming the GPL is not enforcebale / doesn't apply to them / doesn't make copyrighted software usable by others.

So IBM is now countersuing SCO, because it was the GPL that gave SCO the right to use IBM code in the linux that they sold. If SCO claims the GPL is invalid, then they had no right to use the copyrighted IBM code.

LOL!

"IBM granted SCO and others a nonexclusive license to the above-listed copyrighted contributions to Linux on the terms set out in the GPL and only on the terms set out in the GPL," according to the counterclaim. "SCO has infringed and is infringing IBM's copyrights by copying, modifying, sublicensing and/or distributing Linux products except as expressly provided under the GPL."

 

[ProviaFan]

SCO must be stupid beyond belief. I'm sure they'll put out another "press release" stating how this IBM lawsuit is BS etc.

 

[Glitchny]

they need to realize that they cant win...

 

[DaveSimmons]

d'oh! so that's where this thread went, I meant to post it to off-topic