Re: "GPL requirement could have a chilling effect on derivative distros"

[Mark Kent]

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Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> espoused:
> ROFL. 
> 
> Uh.
> 
> peterwn wrote:
>> 
> "It is well known that the Free Software Foundation does not hold
>  copyright in the Linux system kernel program. "
> 
> Liar.
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sco/sco-v-ibm.html
> 
> "The Foundation notes that despite the alarmist statements SCO's
>  employees have made, the Foundation has not been sued, nor has SCO,
>  despite our requests, identified any work whose copyright the
>  Foundation holds-including all of IBM's modifications to the kernel
>  for use with IBM's S/390 mainframe computers, assigned to the
>  Foundation by IBM--that SCO asserts infringes its rights in any way."
> 

IBM assigning kernel modifications for the S/390 to the FSF is not the
same as Linus Torvalds assigning the kernel to the FSF.  

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