全然 Plamo な話ではないのだけれど、、

Novell が SCO に放った会心の一撃

in an edition of $ echo dated April 1985 (the same month that the Sequent license agreement was signed), AT&T announced that changes would be made to the SVRX license agreement "to clarify ownership of modifications or derivative works prepared by a licensee." AT&T said this and other announced changes were "in response to direct feedback from AT&T licensees and [were] intended to make the contracts more responsive to the needs of the licensees." AT&T then followed up by adding to section 2.01 a sentence clarifying that AT&T "claims no ownership interest in any portion of such a modification or derivative work that is not part of a SOFTWARE PRODUCT." Even more clearly, the August 1985 edition of $ echo explained that this "sentence was added to assure licensees that AT&T will claim no ownership in the software that they developed -- only the portion of the software developed by AT&T."

この指摘に従うと、SCO が主張している「はしごの譬え」は一切意味を失うな。

Novell は、この指摘に従って、SCO が Seaquent(IBM)にしている訴訟を 2/11 の正午までに取り下げるように命じたらしいけど、SCO が無視したので、SCO に対して Seaquent のコードに対する一切の主張をする権利を剥奪する旨の宣言を出したらしい。

"Accordingly, pursuant to Section 4.16(b) of the Asset Purchase Agreement, Novell, on behalf of The SCO Group, hereby waives any purported right SCO may claim to require Sequent (or IBM as its successor) to treat Sequent Code as subject to the confidentiality obligations or use restrictions of Sequent's SVRX license."

SCO は対応におおわらわなのか、これに関する声明は出してないみたいだけど、さてどう対応するのかな?

しかし、この一撃は IBM ではなくて、元の権利保持者である Novell から出たというところが大きいな。うがった見方をすれば、IBM が後ろで情報を流しているような感じ。


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