Actually, it would mean everyone would have to stop distributing the 
affected parts of Linux until the patented portions were removed and/or 
reworked.

Bill Warner wrote:
> 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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>>For those who haven't read this yet...
>>http://www.sys-con.com/linux/articlenews.cfm?id=381
>>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!
>>nathan
>>- -- 
>>Nathan England
>>plug  at the-arcanum.org
>>jabber id: linuxjunkie@jabber.earth.li
>>"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular."
>>- --Adlai Stevenson