[plug] SCO GPLs their UNIX IP

[Andrew Pamment]

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 13:33, Leon Brooks wrote:

> Ergo, if SCO are able to indemnify their own Linux users, they are 
> required by the terms of a licence which they have been implicitly 
> agreeing to for nearly three months since filing suit (to say nothing 
> of many years before) to indemnify all users of any software included 
> on that FTP site (ie, practically the entire distribution, certainly 
> all GPLed packages within it including the Linux kernel) or disributed 
> on CDs.

Ok.. I dont totally understand everything thats going on here, but if
infact the argument that SCO has GPLed the code apparently put in the
linux kernel by distributing it on their website, then because the GPL
requires that no proprietary code be linked with GPL code, would that
make all the UnixWare code that is linked to the code that sco
inadvertantly GPLed be GPLed?

ok obviously I have no idea what I am talking about.
Andrew