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UnixWare Copyrights - When Did Novell Get Them and For How Long?

By Pamela Jones et al.

In SCO's reply to Novell's appellate brief, it tells the court:

Contrary to Novell's allegations, Santa Cruz "did not add any Novell copyright notices to," or "remove any copyright notices" from, the source code it acquired from Novell. (10666¶¶6-7.) In fact, it was Novell that changed the notices to add the Santa Cruz notice. (Id.) In addition, the date range of the Novell notices from 1984-95 could not pertain to UnixWare source code, because Novell did not acquire the UNIX and UnixWare source code from AT&T until 1993. (10666¶8.) Instead, since Netware code was "contained in UnixWare," the notices pertained to Netware, which Novell had owned since "the mid-1980s." (00317;10666¶8.)

This is so garbled, it's like a knot in your sneakers. One hardly knows where to begin. But it's worth it to try to unravel it, so here we go.

Full post as published by Groklaw on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).