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[VNU]: Finally. Somebody raised a possible problem that you yourselves distribute the infringing code under the GPL licence. Do you see that as a problem from your point of view?
[Sontag]:No we do not, because you do not have an infringement issue when you are providing customers with products that have your intellectual property in them.
[VNU]:OK, but Linux has a kernel which isn't yours. Are you saying that there are changes to the kernel?
[Sontag]:We have concerns and issues even with areas of the kernel.
[VNU]:So you are saying that you are happy distributing the kernel because the offending code belongs to you anyway, as I understand it?
[Sontag]:Yes.
Apparently this guy needs to read the GPL. Sontag freely admits that the kernel contains SCO code, but it's perfectly okay for them to distribute a Linux kernel because it's their property. With these three statements above he essentially says that any SCO code in the kernel is now freely distributable under the GPL -