The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) has published a position paper that indicates Linux customers will likely ignore SCO Group's legal threats until a court decision is rendered in the litigation brought by SCO Group against Novell on copyright ownership.

The paper's author, Professor Eben Moglen of Columbia University, is regarded as one of the world's leading experts on copyright law as applied to software. OSDL is disseminating the position paper to address issues of concern to its members and Linux industry customers as a result of SCO Group's ongoing litigation threat to sue end-users of Linux and extract royalties from manufacturers using Linux in embedded systems.

OSDL believes Professor Moglen's paper will help its members, the Linux development community, and Linux end-users better understand legal issues and business risks associated with using Linux.

You can read Moglen's latest article here:

 
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