[ Thanks to David for this link.
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“SCO Group has not yet publicly revealed the basis for any of
its claims. OSDL is disseminating the position paper to address
issues that may concern its members and industry Linux customers as
a result of SCO Group’s public threats. OSDL believes Moglen’s
analysis will help its members, the Linux development community and
Linux users better understand potential legal issues.“In his paper, Professor Moglen identifies some of the legal
issues raised by the SCO Group’s claims about Linux and users of
the popular open source system. He does not offer legal advice, but
rather frames some of the key questions that companies and
developers should ask their own counsel about Linux. Moglen, a
faculty member at Columbia University’s Law School, presented his
paper on July 24 in New York at the first meeting of OSDL’s
customer advisory council, comprised of CIOs and CTOs from Fortune
100 corporations.“‘It is the consensus among the end users with whom we’ve
discussed SCO’s claims that they are not slowing their Linux
implementation plans,’ said Stuart Cohen, OSDL CEO. ‘As suggested
by Moglen, absent clear, open and publicly available evidence that
using Linux violates rights that SCO has not already conferred on
users by freely distributing Linux over the course of several
years, users see no need to purchase a license from SCO at
present…'”
OSDL
Position Paper (PDF File)