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Re: [SLE] Novell gets down and dirty with SCO
- From: Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 09:56:17 -0400
- Message-id: <200508040956.18117.gaf@xxxxxxx>
On Thursday 04 August 2005 8:53 am, James Knott wrote:
> According to Novell, they didn't get the copyrights.
This is true, but a matter for the courts.
> The claims about JFS are curious, as it was developed for OS/2 and then
> ported to AIX & UNIX. They are apparently claiming derivative works,
> even though they never, according to AT&T, inherited that right.
The "derivative works" is complicated, and there is quite a bit of testimony
as to what IBM and AT&T agreed to. IBM's perpetual license predates the
sale of Unix from AT&T to Novell. In the very strictest sense, any program
one writes in Unix is a "derivative work". If IBM had agreed to the
original AT&T clause, then NUMA, SMP and JFS would qualify. (JFS is more
complicated because the Linux version is effectively the OS2 version).
> According to that note from the senior SCO software engineer, there was
> nothing that wasn't there legally i.e. from legitimate 3rd parties.
Exactly. Linux should be relatively clean.
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9
PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
> According to Novell, they didn't get the copyrights.
This is true, but a matter for the courts.
> The claims about JFS are curious, as it was developed for OS/2 and then
> ported to AIX & UNIX. They are apparently claiming derivative works,
> even though they never, according to AT&T, inherited that right.
The "derivative works" is complicated, and there is quite a bit of testimony
as to what IBM and AT&T agreed to. IBM's perpetual license predates the
sale of Unix from AT&T to Novell. In the very strictest sense, any program
one writes in Unix is a "derivative work". If IBM had agreed to the
original AT&T clause, then NUMA, SMP and JFS would qualify. (JFS is more
complicated because the Linux version is effectively the OS2 version).
> According to that note from the senior SCO software engineer, there was
> nothing that wasn't there legally i.e. from legitimate 3rd parties.
Exactly. Linux should be relatively clean.
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9
PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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