Sun expands Unix deal with SCO (News.com)

Sun expands Unix deal with SCO (News.com)

"We're in the process of registering them with the Copyright Office," Stowell said. "We expect it to be completed within about six months." The reason it takes so long is that SCO must show the sequence of ownership of the copyrights.

This is actually the most disturbing part of the whole article. I hope ESR, Dennis Ritchie (who I believe posted some documents about the USL vs. BSD case recently) are paying attention here. SCO could be violating that settlement, but if the US Copyright Office is anything like the USPTO, then they just might get away with this. Is someone stepping forward to demonstrate that SCO cannot legally lay claim to the source code specified in that settlement? I hope there is a process in place for contesting a copyright claim.