SCO's new deal with its lawyers

SCO's new deal with its lawyers

Posted Nov 4, 2004 21:57 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)
In reply to: SCO's new deal with its lawyers by danw6144
Parent article: SCO's new deal with its lawyers

You've found a provision that says that a license grant can always be revoked after 35 years, and note that this conflicts with the perpetual license grant, and therefore think that the license grant can be revoked immediately. Sorry, but the law can't possibly work that way, as "perpetual license" is a common practice in the software industry, and no judge is going to instantly evaporate every non-term software license in the country.

The best you could do with this kind of argument is to say that "perpetual license" really means 35 years.

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