From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20248 invoked by alias); 11 Aug 2003 18:10:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-announce-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-announce-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 20107 invoked from network); 11 Aug 2003 18:10:05 -0000 Subject: SCO Litigation From: Mark Mitchell To: gcc-announce@gcc.gnu.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-vL3WUoHVCwiGD+vcBJ26" Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 18:10:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1060625404.21231.5.camel@doubledemon.codesourcery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2003/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 --=-vL3WUoHVCwiGD+vcBJ26 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-length: 360 The FSF has asked me to call attention to the fact that the GCC 3.3.1 release contains the attached text in the file README.SCO. This file was written by Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen and reflects the views of the FSF. All questions or comments about this material should be directed to the FSF. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery, LLC mark@codesourcery.com --=-vL3WUoHVCwiGD+vcBJ26 Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=README.SCO Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/x-readme; name=README.SCO; charset=UTF-8 Content-length: 1673 As all users of GCC will know, SCO has recently made claims concerning alleged copyright infringement by recent versions of the operating system kernel called Linux. SCO has made irresponsible public statements about this supposed copyright infringement without releasing any evidence of the infringement, and has demanded that users of Linux, the kernel most often used with the GNU system, pay for a license. This license is incompatible with the GPL, and in the opinion of the Free Software Foundation such a demand unquestionably violates the GNU General Public License under which the kernel is distributed. We have been urged to drop support for SCO Unix from this release of GCC, as a protest against this irresponsible aggression against free software and GNU/Linux. However, the direct effect of this action would fall on users of GCC rather than on SCO. For the moment, we have decided not to take that action. The Free Software Foundation's overriding goal is to protect the freedom of the free software community, including developers and users, but we also want to serve users. Protecting the community from an attack sometimes requires steps that will inconvenience some in the community. Such a step is not yet necessary, in our view, but we cannot indefinitely continue to ignore the aggression against our community taken by a party that has long profited from the commercial distribution of our programs. We urge users of SCO Unix to make clear to SCO their disapproval of the company's aggression against the free software community. We will have a further announcement concerning continuing support of SCO Unix by GCC before our next release. --=-vL3WUoHVCwiGD+vcBJ26--