Fri, 14 May 2004

SCO Caught Copying

These folks seems to think that pilferage is OK, but releasing code or documentation as open source is unconstitutional. Incredible...

Some time before mid-2003, SCO copied entire chapters of a No Starch book, The Book of Webmin by Joe Cooper, into SCO's on-line documentation. The infringement was described last summer as "an open-and-shut case" by a person familiar with the facts. The Book of Webmin, originally copyrighted in 2000, is available on the Web, but it is not licensed for redistribution.

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