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This will never end

This will never end

Posted Nov 27, 2003 12:41 UTC (Thu) by forthy (guest, #1525)
In reply to: This will never end by jneves
Parent article: SCO update

My hope is that SCO goes down with man and mouse by a judge who declaires Unix PD. After all, AT&T wasn't able to show that Unix had trade secret or copyright value during the BSD case, and got away to keep it only by settling that case.

They'll find that most of Unix is identical to BSD (SCO will help them by suing BSD as well), and that's because most of Unix really is BSD. That's not illegal, but from a copyright point of view, you can't claim copyright for something that's mostly written by others. So Unix itself would be subject to the BSD license.


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