Lycoris: Lycoris Users Immune to SCO Licensing

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 8, 2003

“Lycoris revealed today that its flagship product, Desktop/LX,
is based on Caldera OpenLinux, which Lycoris has a license to
develop and distribute directly from SCO. The terms of this
previous agreement lock in Lycoris’s ability to alter the source
code of the Caldera OpenLinux product, which it has done
extensively and release the results as Open Source to the
public.

“‘Anyone can still download the source to Caldera OpenLinux
today and modify it as we have done under the terms of SCO’s own
freely distributable license,’ states Jason Spisak, Vice President
of Market Development for Lycoris. “They have a
specific licensing agreement with Lycoris for that source code, and
both parties are adhering to that license, so our users have
nothing to worry about…'”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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