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SCO offers UnixWare licenses for LinuxSCO offers UnixWare licenses for LinuxPosted Jul 21, 2003 19:51 UTC (Mon) by brouhaha (subscriber, #1698)In reply to: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux by stark Parent article: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux
1 - Does SCO actually own the copyright? If not, then IBM simply stole it from someone else, so this isn't entirely a good thing.What??? If SCO doesn't own the copyright on the code in question, it does NOT follow that IBM stole anything. For instance, IBM almost certainly owns the copyright to the read-copy-update (RCU) code. This code was developed by Sequent who was acquired by IBM. SCO claims that their contract with IBM gives SCO ownership of any modifications to Unix that IBM develops. But this is based on an interpretation of the contract clause that is very unlikely to be upheld by a court, IMHO. There's a remote chance that SCO might have some limited rights to RCU, but not exclusive ownership.
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