Eben Moglen sees desperation in SCO's latest attacks upon the GPL, which he says are based upon an “intentional misreading” of U.S. Copyright law.

Moglen, a professor of law at Columbia University Law School who serves without fee as General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation, has posted a paper reacting to statements attributed to SCO's outside counsel Mark Heise in the Aug. 14th edition of the Wall Street Journal. A subtitle to a ZDNet Australia story on the Heise's Wall Street Journal statements said his arguments could “destroy the legal foundation of Linux and related software.”

Moglen notes with aparent bemusement that, were Heise's interpretation of copyright law upheld, not only the GPL but also Microsoft's method of distributing Windows would be deemed illegal.

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