The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later

Posted Mar 7, 2023 18:40 UTC (Tue) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later by paulj
Parent article: The SCO lawsuit, 20 years later

It varies by type of agreement, and by what the agreement claims to show. To enforce the agreement against the party that agreed needs bigger actions than to enforce it against a third party who's claiming their rights were infringed.

And that's what the DCO is there to protect against - the next SCO will face us being able to show that (e.g.) the infringing code was contributed by SGI, and therefore SCO has to bring SGI (and others) into the case. This expansion means that the defence side has many more lawyers involved than the plaintiff, and thus that it's harder for them to show that their chosen target is liable.