SCO vs. IBM, part XXXVIII

ziggy on 2004-03-04T15:29:30

Now IBM has to hand its *nix sources to SCO, so SCO can find infractions:

IBM has been told to turn over the releases of AIX and Dynix that SCO's lawyers say represent "about 232 products" in 45 days. SCO in turn has been told to provide the court with a memorandum saying whether the code is relevant or not to its case and identify additional files it may want.

IBM has also been ordered to give SCO "any and all non-public contributions it has made to Linux." SCO is on its own to identify IBM's public contributions.

[source]

<quote voice="Fred Dalton Thomson"> This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to [see the end of] it. </quote>


non-public contributions?

merlyn on 2004-03-04T15:55:14

How the heck do you have a "non-public contribution to linux"? It's an open-source project!

Re:non-public contributions?

rafael on 2004-03-04T16:16:17

For good measure, add "under the GPL", which in fact prohibits non-public contributions.