[Am-info] SCO Agrees IBM Owns AIX, JFS, NUMA, RCU Copyrights!!

[Hans Reiser]

Fred A. Miller wrote:

>"SCO-Caldera does not own the copyrights to JFS (Journaling File System), RCU 
>(Read, Copy, and Update), NUMA (Non-uniform Memory Access) software, and 
>other IBM-developed AIX code that IBM contributed to the Linux kernel. 
>
>That could make it very difficult for SCO-Caldera to pursue its threatened 
>copyright infringement claims against GNU/Linux users who refuse to buy SCO 
>UnixWare licenses in order to run the GNU/Linux operating system."
>
>http://mozillaquest.com/Linux03/ScoSource-24-Copyrights_Story01.html
>
>  
>
You can own exclusive rights without owning the copyrights.  The person 
doing that interview did not listen very carefully to what SCO was 
saying, and was not a lawyer, or he would have heard it more exactly.

I wish I understood the claim by SCO well enough to know whether it has 
substance, and to know whether I should avoid any code they lay claim 
to, and what code they lay claim to, but it looks like nobody will know 
the claim and the code before the trial, and that is the way SCO wants it.

-- 
Hans