out there

Posted Aug 19, 2003 17:33 UTC (Tue) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054)
In reply to: out there by ncm
Parent article: Heise reports from SCO Forum

That doesn't work: copyright isn't the same as trademark.

Good point, though actually I was thinking trade secret, not trademark. And SCO has been including trade secret misappropriation as part of their accusations, though it's not clear to me which one they're thinking of with this code.

Rather, we (IBM, really) will need to rely on the Regents of U.C vs. USL agreement granting U.C. full rights to that code as it appears in 2.11 BSD and up.

Except as Bruce has pointed out, we don't know the full terms of the agreement. Are you saying that UC won full rights to everything in 2.11BSD? That's the first I've heard of that.

UCB dropped the advertising clause requirement sometime after that. SCO has no proprietary rights to anything that appears in the last BSD release.

Yes, but this code doesn't appear in the last BSD release. (2.11 is quite a bit older than 4.4.)