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SCO attacks GPL

I saw this in the Wall Street Journal this morning (here is a link, subscription required), before this got posted on SlashDot.

From the WSJ article:
“Now, SCO is preparing to wheel out the software-industry equivalent of a nuclear bomb: It will argue that the GPL itself is invalid, says SCO’s lead attorney, Mark Heise of Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP. Mr. Heise says the GPL, by allowing unlimited copying and modification, conflicts with federal copyright law, which allows software buyers to make only a single backup copy. The GPL “is pre-empted by copyright law,” he says.”

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