Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 12th Mar 2003 20:31 UTC
SCO's lawsuit filed in Utah last week claims that IBM integrated computer code belonging to another company into the Linux operating system, touching off speculation that the lawsuit could hurt other Linux companies, including Red Hat, the country's largest distributor of the software. Red Hat isn't involved in the dispute, but some analysts say that the Raleigh-based company won't be able to escape the fallout. "It's kind of irrelevant who wins the lawsuit," said Victor Raisys, analyst with Soundview Technology Group in San Francisco. "You can't take back the fact that someone has tried to claim intellectual property on Linux. The genie is out of the bottle."
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>>>>Lets not forget those lines that Linus put in the kernel would have been distributed by Caldera under the GPL. Which means that Caldera would have given everyone the right to copy, redistribute and alter that code.
No, Caldera would only give those rights on the source code that Caldera themselves added to linus' codes. You can't give rights away that you don't have in the first place (since the original linus codes are GPL, Caldera would have no rights to restrict its distribution --- therefore caldera never would have given everyone the right to copy, redistribute and alter that code").