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Novell Wins vs. SCO
Aim Here writes "According to Novell's website, and the Salt Lake Tribune, the jury in the SCO v. Novell trial has returned a verdict: Novell owns the Unix copyrights. This also means that SCO's case against IBM must surely collapse too, and likely the now bankrupt SCO group itself. It's taken 7 years, but the US court system has eventually done the right thing ..." No doubt this is the last we will ever hear of any of this.
Not necessarily true.
Simply conveying a GPLed product doesn't imply any rights in addition to what was already within the product were conveyed. So if whoever put the code in the product didn't have the legal ability to do so, then SCO or Novell distributing anything wouldn't entrap them into losing their copyright to it or granting others rights to that copyright.
Let me explain this a little differently. Suppose you spent the last 5 years developing a video game that you intended to sell at a reasonable price. Now suppose I packaged a GPLed OS and combined your video game directly into the code so it was an integral part of the OS's display. Now also suppose I placed a GPL notice on all your code as well as the OS package then asked you to host the files at your website. That act alone does not remove any of your rights to the copyright of your code nor does it give anyone else copyright rights to it. In short, the GPL wouldn't apply to items I didn't not have the right to apply it to regardless of you distributing it unknowingly or not.
Think about this, could I take a GPLed program or piece of code from it and place that into a BSD or MIT licensed work? Of course not. But suppose I did so and didn't tell anyone, then the original author decides to distribute it as a compilation of programs or something or part of it without knowing his code is in there, he has granted nothing knowingly so it still wouldn't be BSD or MIT licenses code. All he would have done is passed on the permissions he received- not added any without his knowledge.
This is because I have no right to assign your copyright and the GPL doesn't steal copyright. It only passed rights to copyright on to others assuming they pass those same rights given to them with it. So if I violated your copyright by placing it inside of something, if or when you distribute that, you are only distributing the copyright I gave you permission to redistribute, not automatically losing your rights to your copyrighted work.
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