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SCO's new deal with its lawyers
SCO's new deal with its lawyers
Posted Nov 4, 2004 22:22 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)In reply to: SCO's new deal with its lawyers by danw6144
Parent article: SCO's new deal with its lawyers
Section 203 doesn't deal with works for hire, which I assume UNIX was. Otherwise, it would apply not to SCO's grant to IBM but Novell's grant, if any, to SCO, as it is only the author who can withdraw a grant, not any later owner. As SCO didn't write UNIX personally, section 203 isn't even applicable. See here, and note "other than a work made for hire" and "executed by the author".
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SCO's new deal with its lawyers
Posted Nov 5, 2004 1:51 UTC (Fri) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link]
>>Section 203 doesn't deal with works for hire, which I assume UNIX was.
You know what they say about assuming... The original UNIX was written a long time ago under different copyright laws. In the BSD trials the judge thought it was likely to not be copyright at all.
Just thought I'd throw that out.