Novell could be banned from selling Linux

[doctormo at gmail.com (Martin Owens)]

It's odd, perhaps either they own a small piece of the kernel as a
group or they have one or two of the kernel develops asking for help
because I've seen them go after linux misuse in routers and the likes,
and I don't even know if they use the gnu toolchain; although on
consideration it's probably likly most people use some of the gnu
tools in their distribution.


> > Only a copyright holder can take someone to court for violation of a
> > copyright license.  The FSF doesn't hold copyright to any of the Linux
> > kernel that I'm aware of, and so would have no standing to go to
> > court.  It would have to be one of more of the kernel developers suing
> > over a violation of the kernel's copyright.  The FSF could take action
> > if the copyright to any of the GNU tools were violated (since the FSF
> > holds the copyright to the entire GNU toolchain).
> >

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