From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: djenner@earthlink.net (David C. Jenner) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:54:37 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] SCO sues IBM? References: <20030310012147.GB94647@wantadilla.lemis.com> <002501c2e6b2$f8b6ec60$ed8ca140@ca.caldera.com> <671020867.20030310142100@subatomix.com> <20030310211518.GL90290@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> Message-ID: <3E6D099D.A9F4654D@earthlink.net> Warren has a signed, dated, and numbered license for Ancient Unix (AU-0). I have a signed, dated, and numbered license for Ancient Unix (AU-1). I don't see how Warren can't distribute to me any software covered under the license. Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On 2003-Mar-10 14:21:00 -0600, Jeffrey Sharp wrote: > >On Sunday, March 9, 2003, Michael Davidson wrote: > >> I will, however, ask for an "official" statement of SCO's current position > >> on "Ancient UNIX" > > > >But once they've released it under a BSD-style license, it is released. They > >simply can't unrelease it. They don't have to continue distributing it, but > >they can't stop me from doing what the license explicitly allows. So their > >current position WRT ancient UNIX may not mave much legal weight. IANAL, > >TINLA. > > AFAIK, the only evidence we have that it is released under a BSD-style > license is an e-mail allegedly from an authorised person within SCO. > Warren has not been able to find an equivalent statement on their > website. I suspect Warren is concerned that they could claim it was > never released - ie the e-mail is a faked/forged or the sender didn't > have the authority to make the claims therein. > > What would you do if SCO's lawyers came knocking on your door and > demanded you cease distributing ancient UNIX or derived products? > Whilst you could probably prove the authenticity of the e-mail, this > would cost real money - and SCO probably can afford to spend a lot > more money than you can. > > The date of the e-mail may also be a crucial issue - since IBM would > presumably have the right to use the code after SCO changed the code > to a BSD license. > > IANAL, TINLA etc. > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > http://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs -- David C. Jenner djenner at earthlink.net