Novell's Unix code [LWN.net]

Novell's Unix code

Posted Aug 13, 2007 15:07 UTC (Mon) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
Parent article: A bad day for the SCO Group

"Novell could provide a more than fitting end to this episode... by releasing the
Unix code under a free license."

Anyone remember when Caldera (now known as the SCO Group, but back then
a friendly player in the Linux Community) released ancient Unix code under a
free license? Does this decision mean that Caldera actually didn't have the
authority to do that?

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Novell's Unix code

Posted Aug 23, 2007 9:49 UTC (Thu) by forthy (guest, #1525) [Link]

It probably would take years in court to find out ;-). Novell has the right to stop Caldera to sue. Caldera might have had the right to relicense the code under whatever license they liked to. This was probably the opposite of a FSF copyright transfer agreement: There you transfer (non-exclusively) the right to sue to the FSF, but keep all other rights. In the Novell/Caldera case, Novell transferred all rights to Caldera, except the right to sue.