Novell wins rights to Unix copyrights
SCO also owes Novell for licensing revenue paid by Sun and Microsoft
August 11, 2007
Computerworld
My summary: If you haven't followed this for the past few years, this is pretty sigificant. Short version: SCO sued IBM for copyright violation for programming code used in Linux, saying it was based on copyrighted Unix code that SCO owned. Novell stepped in and counter-sued, saying, no, we own the copyright, we just licensed it to SCO. So, SCO cannot sue IBM for copyright infringement. This is good news for the open source community.
For many additional details, go to the Groklaw blog (http://www.groklaw.net/), maintained by Pamela Jones, a paralegal. This blog has timelines and documents for the entire SCO/IBM/NOvell round of lawsuits.
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