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SCO to argue General Public Licence invalid
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11031

SCO WILL attempt to win its $3 billion case against IBM by arguing that the General Public Licence (GPL) is invalid.
That's what a pleader at legal practice Boies Schiller and Flexner is telling the Wall Street Journal today.

The GPL licence allows software and work derived from it to be copied by anyone at no charge.

But according to today's WSJ, quoting lawyer Mark Heise, the GPL is pre-empted by US federal copyright law.

How does that work then? According to Heise, federal law only lets people make a single backup copy of software, and that makes the GPL void under US law.

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