MozillaQuest: SCO-Caldera & the GNU/Linux Community: Part 2, Under the Iceberg’s Tip

“In our 5 February 2003 article, SCO-Caldera & the GNU/Linux
Community: The SCOsource IP Matter, we noted: The worst-case
scenario for the Linux community could be that everyone running
Linux would have to pay licensing fees to Caldera. There also has
been some concern that SCO-Caldera is planning to charge license
fees for GNU, GPL, open source, free or otherwise public domain
software.

“The main focus of our 5 February article was some SCO-Caldera
libraries that allow SCO UnixWare and SCO OpenServer applications
to run on Intel x86 Linux platforms. We also noted then that the
SCO-Caldera UnixWare/Linux libraries are only the tip of an IP
iceberg and that many questions remained unanswered.

“Today, we look at some of the issues that were hidden under the
tip of the SCOsource announcement, what they are, and how they
might impact on the Linux, GNU/Linux, free software, and open
source software communities. Generally, but not always, in today’s
article Linux refers to the Linux kernel and GNU/Linux refers to
the GNU/Linux operating system, which includes the Linux kernel and
all the GNU software packaged with the Linux kernel to make a
complete operating system…”

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