Novell Quotes AT&T on Derivative Works

Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 10, 2004 @12:24PM from the ma-bell-swings-her-hammer-of-truth dept.

grendelkhan writes "Novell has released their latest correspondance with the litigous bastards ordering them to stop the lawsuit by noon tomorrow, and clarify what the SVRX licensing agreements with AT&T meant regarding derivative works. The letter quotes AT&T from the April '85 issue of $echo as stating that they 'claim no ownership interest in any portion of such a modification or derivative work.' So much for the ladder rung analogy." And reader highwaytohell links to today's CRN article in which Eben Moglen suggests that the SCO/Linux lawsuit cannot move ahead "until SCO resolves its dispute with Novell. And regardless of which company prevails in court, he said, customers won't have to pay any company for a license fee since both claimants--SCO and Novell--have distributed the Linux code under the GPL. Once again, SCO have no comment."

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my 2 cents by linuxwebadmin · 2004-02-10 15:19 · Score: 0, Redundant

go get em novell!!!

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Re:Meanwhile, back on the western front... by SirTreveyan · 2004-02-11 09:15 · Score: 0, Redundant

its gonna be more like this...

1. sue IBM

2. get in deep shit

3. find sucker...

4. sell rights that do not belong to them

5. profit

6. go to step 3 and repeat

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