“Believe it or not, SCO is asking the court to kill IBM’s
copyright infringement counterclaims, the ones based on the GPL
violations, on the grounds that SCO pretends it never violated the
GPL.“Here is its position, as stated in the Memorandum in Support of
its motion for summary judgment:“I. SCO DID NOT BREACH THE GPL
“IBM’s Sixth and Seventh Counterclaims fail as a matter of law
because SCO did not breach the GPL. First, where SCO has copied and
re-distributed Linux, it has done so in compliance with the
requirements of the GPL. Second, nothing in the GPL–which by its
very terms is limited to ‘copying, distribution and modification’
of Linux–precludes SCO from issuing licenses to its UNIX
software…”
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