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SCO Claims IBM/SGI Licenses are Revokable

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-take-backs dept.

shadow099 writes "SCO claims in an open letter writen by Blake Stowell, Director Public Relations SCO, that the Unix licenses to IBM and SGI can be revoked. " This is just the latest volley in the ongoing circus. It keeps getting funnier!

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  1. By the Original by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 4, Informative
    ...any time terminate all the rights granted by it hereunder by not less than two(2) months' written notice to LICENSEE specifying any such breach, unless within the period of such notice all breaches specified therein shall have been remedied;...

    So, by the original language, the license can only be revoked by specifying the breach. SCO has yet to specify the breach so much as point in its general direction.

    The other proviso is that if the breach is fixed (ie the infringing stuff is removed) then the license can no longer be revoked. So, if the offending code in Linux is identified and removed- there is no breach.

    Is it just me or are they no even bothering to hide their alterior agenda anymore?

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  2. Ammendment X by Col.+Klink+(retired) · · Score: 3, Informative
    Why would anyone in their right mind sign over a license to anyone that was not revocable?

    Namely because there are other ways of enforcing your contracts. I haven't seen all of the SGI contracts, but here is Ammentment X to the IBM contract and it clearly states IBM has an "irrevocable" and "perpetual" contract. It also says that SCO is not otherwise limited from enjoining or prohibiting IBM in other ways.

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