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Does SCO own read-copy-update?Does SCO own read-copy-update?Posted Jun 13, 2003 15:25 UTC (Fri) by shahms (subscriber, #8877)In reply to: Does SCO own read-copy-update? by freeio Parent article: Does SCO own read-copy-update? Of course, even if the Monterey agreements included cross-licensing agreements suing for breach of contract certainly puts them in a dubious position wrt those other agreements. Assuming the Linux RCU code in question was copied from SCO, doesn't the existance of this patent mean that, either way, SCO loses? (I'd pretty much assumed that anyway, even if SCO wins the lawsuit it means they exist as a viable entity for what, another two years?) If SCO wins the lawsuit on copyright infringement, the RCU code has to be removed from Linux, whoo, it can be rewritten (the GPL doesn't prevent patented algorithms from being used, it just states that the GPL implementation of that algorithm must be "freely redistributable"). But SCO is SOL, given that I don't think IBM is going to say "we just lost a lawsuit to you, so we're feeling inclined to just let you use an algorithm we have a patent on without paying for it" more likely they'll say: "you're free to use the GPL implementation, but if you do, you'd better GPL UnixWare or we'll sue *you* for copyright and patent infringement"
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