I am not a Lawyer but...
Check www.groklaw.net for much more info on the SCO/Linux issues, SCO seems
to be confused about what it owns and what is actually in Linux, personally
I doubt SCO has any chance what-so-ever in being able to prove anything that
it has claimed in it's lawsuits and in public. 

In most cases Copyright issues are dealt with in a remove code now or else
fashion, so an issue with a specific module would not bring the whole
project to it's knees.

I'm a bit over my head hear, but my understanding is that R is a derivative
of S and is fully endorsed by the S group(I can not find any references at
the moment, but I believe that there is information on this somewhere with
in the R web site).
 
Mark.

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Tarpinian [mailto:sasprog474@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 3:54 PM
To: r-help@stat.math.ethz.ch
Subject: [R] SCO & R


I apologize if this has been addressed before;
recently
I read an article in Forbes which discussed how SCO
was going after companies that have been using Linux.
The article made the point that the ideas behind GPL
are under attack precisely because no one is making
sure
that the code being put into the freely avail.
packages
isn't owned by someone else.

Here's my question:  Is R vulnerable in any way to the
sorts of lawsuits that SCO is bringing against the
Linux community?

Thanks in advance,

    Greg


	
		
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