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File suit against a Linux user?File suit against a Linux user?Posted Nov 28, 2003 14:23 UTC (Fri) by rankincj (subscriber, #4865)In reply to: File suit against a Linux user? by bryn Parent article: Lawyers in charge The first suit is about contracts: IBM put JFS, NUMA and RCU into Linux, and SCO's list of "discovery" files strongly implies that SCO are not going to claim anything else here. IBM owns all the relevant copyrights and patents for these so SCO can only sue IBM for "breach of contract". Specifically, the AT&T contract says that IBM must keep derivative works of UNIX secret, and so SCO must be classifying RCU, NUMA and JFS as derivative works. IBM does not. SCO's new threats are about copyrights, and so they *must* claiming to have found ancient System V code within Linux. This is not related to the RCU, JFS and NUMA code. However, I seriously doubt that there's any significant amount System V code to be found. It's been 9 months since the original claim and I'm sure that people have been searching diligently for any signs. And the silence has been deafening.
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