Originally posted by treuss
Didn't SCO publish UNIX under GPL?
Well, these are commercial unices. As I guess, amongst all unix-like OSes, only Linux uses GPL. FreeBSD (NetBSD, OpenBSD) use their own open licensies.
I donot know many details about the deal between Novel and SCO (that seems that nobody knows, even they are ). But now Novel claims that it had sold their buisness to SCO, but that didn't include the rights on sources. In any case, these claims from SCO are stupid now. There were lots of funny cases when they were trying to show some parts of "stollen" code.
Oh... I guess for completing the current picture, Fortran creators should patent some of programming languages statements like cicles, if-statements, etc... that'll be funny