SCO vs. Novell; Novell wins.

[Jeffry Smith]

 While SMP, NUMA, and JFS were developed by IBM (and
> Sequent) under the strict terms of the original AT&T contract these are
> considered derivative works. IBM needs to prove in court that the
> derivative clause does not apply. They signed their perpetual contract
> with AT&T before AT&T sold USL to Novell. This has not yet been
> adjudicated which is why I am including JFS which (IBM claims) was not
> part of AIX. Basically, while Novell owwns the copyrights to the Unix
> source code, TSCOG has the right to manage and sell licenses. This is
> what Santa Cruz bought from Novell.

1.  Only NUMA may not have the derivative clause - IBM DID have it,
and the others are theirs.

2.  IBM developed the linux JFS from theiir OS/2 JFS, which was a
clean-room implementation of JFS.  Despite what TSCOG claims,
copyright does NOT cover methods and concepts.

jeff