Re: Initial thoughts on IBM-SCO Lawsuit, and Implications for FSBs

begin Larry M. Augustin quotation of Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:01:27AM -0800:

> In summary, the key point being IBM had access to SCO's source code as
> part of a licensing agreement.  SCO alleges that IBM released
> intellectual property (trade secrets and/or copyrighted code) in
> violation of that license agreement.
> 
> Individual developers and companies that are not SCO licensees would
> not appear to be potential targets for this type of lawsuit.

So the main point here is: Don't accept "Shared Source", or any
access to proprietary source code under NDA, or this will happen
to you if the licensor doesn't like something you do in the future.

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