-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.
+The GCC team has been urged to drop support for SCO Unix from GCC, as
+a protest against SCO's irresponsible aggression against free software
+and GNU/Linux. We have decided to take no action at this time, as we
+no longer believe that SCO is a serious threat.
-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.
+For more on the FSF's position regarding SCO's attacks on free
+software, please read:
+
+ http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sco/sco.html
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