There is verbiage in the GPL that states if GPLed code turns out to be
covered under a patent than it cannot be distributed under any terms by
anyone unless the patent holder allows full access to that code.

SCO would have to give up SCO Linux and unitedLinux in order to do
something like this.

Bill W

On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 07:05, Nathan England wrote:
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> SCO is claiming they have IP right s to ?System V? stuff in linux and
> they 
> will start charging users a per seat fee of $96 bucks, or else they'll
> sue!
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> nathan
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