It doesn't matter where intellectual property is hosted. IP ownership begins with authorship, and transfers only explicitly. Use of IP doesn't imply ownership at all, and hosting is only a form of use.
That said, very little can stop IP-related lawsuits from being filed, and little seems to be taken as obvious in such cases. One can only hope for reasonable and well-informed courts.
As for the authorship question, I can only speak for my contributions; I don't know about the rest of LiS. At least some of my contributions to LiS, which include fifos & pipes, FD passing, and fattach/fdetach, weren't part of any SCO or Caldera Unix variant when I wrote them (from scratch, using only manpages and books as references), so they couldn't possibly have been authored by any party with an SCO ownership interest.
I don't know if they're yet in AIX or other SCO-derived Unix variants, but I have no access to such systems to be able to check that for myself.
Maybe SCO has looked a little closer at LiS and realized that it's more original than not.
-John
Francois-Xavier 'FiX' KOWALSKI wrote:
Hello Dave & all,
anyone having a comment about the below? This is a quote from an article published on the excellent <http://lwn.net> so I assume that they are good sources, although I have not yet come to verify them.
Finally, and, perhaps, most interestingly, SCO has included a set of other files (exhibit 28-G) for which it claims ownership. The first part of this list consists of the Linux streams (LiS) patch <http://www.gcom.com/home/linux/lis/> which has never been part of the mainline kernel. Interestingly, the LiS distribution was hosted at Caldera <http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9701.3/0585.html> for some time. But the company formerly known as Caldera would rather forget that now; the company claims, in its filing, the LiS has not appeared in "any Linux-related product distributed by SCO."
br.
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