from an sco press release today

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SCO Says IBM's Amended Complaint, Based on GPL, is Built on a Shaky 
Foundation

LINDON, Utah-September 29, 2003-The SCO Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:  SCOX) 
today made the following announcement: 

On Friday, September 26, IBM filed an amendment to its legal complaint 
against The SCO Group. In this amended complaint IBM asserts that SCO 
has violated the GNU General Public License (GPL), and based on this 
violation has then violated certain IBM copyrights. IBM, not SCO, has 
brought the GPL into the legal controversy between the two companies. 
SCO believes that the GPL -- created by the Free Software Foundation to 
supplant current U.S. copyright laws -- is a shaky foundation on which 
to build a legal case. By contrast, SCO continues to base its legal 
claims on well-settled United States contract laws and United States 
copyright laws.

The GPL has never faced a full legal test, and SCO believes that it will 
not stand up in court. We are confident that SCO will win the legal 
battle that IBM has now started over the GPL. By so strongly defending 
the controversial GPL, IBM is also defending a questionable licensing 
scheme through which it can avoid providing software indemnification 
for its customers. We continue to urge IBM to provide legal 
indemnification for its Linux customers.
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