The non-profit OSDL said the fund will also cover the legal expenses of Linus Torvalds, the creator of the open source software. In addition, the OSDL will be able to use funds from the defense fund for its own legal work carried out in the litigation with SCO. Torvalds, who is employed at the Lab, directs the development of Linux. Torvalds has not been named as a target in the case by SCO.
The OSDL said the legal defense fund will not cover developers. There is separate legal defense fund for developers established by Red Hat Inc. to defend developers. The OSDL consortium said it will limit the defense fund's contributions to end users "sued by SCO where the case involves copyright or other intellectual property issues that affect the Linux industry."
SCO has sent out more than 1,500 warning letters to business users of its software, demanding that they pay fees to SCO for their use of the GNU Linux operating system.
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