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20-08-2007, 19:19
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Court Ruling Gives Novell Copyright in Unix System
By Keith J. Winstein and William M. Bulkeley
Word Count: 363 | Companies Featured in This Article: Novell, SCO Group, Microsoft, International Business Machines
A federal court in Utah ruled that Novell Inc., not SCO Group Inc., is the rightful owner of the copyright in the Unix operating system.
The ruling is a boon to the "open source" software movement and to Linux, the freely available computer operating system that has become an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system.
The ruling will harm SCO's efforts to claim money from installations of Linux. The decision also will ...
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CONCLUSION
For the reasons stated above, the court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights. Therefore, SCO's First Claim for Relief for slander of title and Third Claim for specific performance are dismissed, as are the copyright ownership portions of SCO's Fifth Claim for Relief for unfair competition and Second Claim for Relief for breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. The court denies SCO's cross-motion for summary judgment on its own slander of title, breach of contract, and unfair competition claims, and on Novell's slander of title claim. Accordingly, Novell's slander of title claim is still at issue.
The court also concludes that, to the extent that SCO has a copyright to enforce, SCO can simultaneously pursue both a copyright infringement claim and a breach of contract claim based on the non-compete restrictions in the license back of the Licensed Technology under APA and the TLA. The court further concludes that there has not been a change of control that released the non-compete restrictions of the license, and the non-compete restrictions of the license are not void under California law. Accordingly, Novell's motion for summary judgment on SCO's non-compete claim in its Second Claim for breach of contract and Fifth Claim for unfair competition is granted to the extent that SCO's claims require ownership of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights, and denied in all other regards.
per chi ha perso le puntate precedenti:
in 2 parole:
IBM è accusata da SCO di aver inserito codice di UNIX di proprietà di SCO in Linux.
Questo risultato chiarisce che SCO non possiede la proprietà intellettuale né di UNIX nè di UnixWare, che invece è nelle mani di Novell. Pertanto la causa di SCO contro IBM ha perso il pilastro portante dell'accusa.
si riferisce ad unix ma che essendo linux un derivato avrebbe violato anche lui con sco dei brevetti .
Sco aveva fatto pagare per brevetti sia microsoft che novell che poi come sappiamo la microsoft appoggiava sco per eliminare linux.
Novell non è sco visto che usava codice linux assieme a quello unix è che mai può rivendicare brevetti su linux .
Adesso con questa causa il kernel linux è salvo.
Court Ruling Gives Novell Copyright in Unix System
By Keith J. Winstein and William M. Bulkeley
Word Count: 363 | Companies Featured in This Article: Novell, SCO Group, Microsoft, International Business Machines
A federal court in Utah ruled that Novell Inc., not SCO Group Inc., is the rightful owner of the copyright in the Unix operating system.
The ruling is a boon to the "open source" software movement and to Linux, the freely available computer operating system that has become an alternative to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system.
The ruling will harm SCO's efforts to claim money from installations of Linux. The decision also will ...
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070810165237718
CONCLUSION
For the reasons stated above, the court concludes that Novell is the owner of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights. Therefore, SCO's First Claim for Relief for slander of title and Third Claim for specific performance are dismissed, as are the copyright ownership portions of SCO's Fifth Claim for Relief for unfair competition and Second Claim for Relief for breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing. The court denies SCO's cross-motion for summary judgment on its own slander of title, breach of contract, and unfair competition claims, and on Novell's slander of title claim. Accordingly, Novell's slander of title claim is still at issue.
The court also concludes that, to the extent that SCO has a copyright to enforce, SCO can simultaneously pursue both a copyright infringement claim and a breach of contract claim based on the non-compete restrictions in the license back of the Licensed Technology under APA and the TLA. The court further concludes that there has not been a change of control that released the non-compete restrictions of the license, and the non-compete restrictions of the license are not void under California law. Accordingly, Novell's motion for summary judgment on SCO's non-compete claim in its Second Claim for breach of contract and Fifth Claim for unfair competition is granted to the extent that SCO's claims require ownership of the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights, and denied in all other regards.
per chi ha perso le puntate precedenti:
in 2 parole:
IBM è accusata da SCO di aver inserito codice di UNIX di proprietà di SCO in Linux.
Questo risultato chiarisce che SCO non possiede la proprietà intellettuale né di UNIX nè di UnixWare, che invece è nelle mani di Novell. Pertanto la causa di SCO contro IBM ha perso il pilastro portante dell'accusa.
si riferisce ad unix ma che essendo linux un derivato avrebbe violato anche lui con sco dei brevetti .
Sco aveva fatto pagare per brevetti sia microsoft che novell che poi come sappiamo la microsoft appoggiava sco per eliminare linux.
Novell non è sco visto che usava codice linux assieme a quello unix è che mai può rivendicare brevetti su linux .
Adesso con questa causa il kernel linux è salvo.