LINDON, Utah, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The SCO Group, Inc.
(Nasdaq: SCOX) today made the following announcement:
(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19990421/SCOLOGO )
On Friday, September 26, IBM filed an amendment to its legal complaint
against The SCO Group. In this amended complaint IBM asserts that SCO has
violated the GNU General Public License (GPL), and based on this violation has
then violated certain IBM copyrights. IBM, not SCO, has brought the GPL into
the legal controversy between the two companies. SCO believes that the GPL --
created by the Free Software Foundation to supplant current U.S. copyright
laws -- is a shaky foundation on which to build a legal case. By contrast,
SCO continues to base its legal claims on well-settled United States contract
laws and United States copyright laws.
The GPL has never faced a full legal test, and SCO believes that it will
not stand up in court. We are confident that SCO will win the legal battle
that IBM has now started over the GPL. By so strongly defending the
controversial GPL, IBM is also defending a questionable licensing scheme
through which it can avoid providing software indemnification for its
customers. We continue to urge IBM to provide legal indemnification for its
Linux customers.
UNIX and UnixWare are used pursuant to an exclusive license with The Open
Group and are registered trademarks of The Open Group in the United States and
other countries.
SOURCE The SCO Group, Inc.
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CONTACT:
Blake Stowell of The SCO Group,
+1-801-932-5703, bstowell@sco.com, or Dave Close or Avi Dines,
both of Schwartz Communications, sco@schwartz-pr.com,
+1-781-684-0770, for The SCO Group
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