After Caldera.com’s Robots.txt is Removed, Some Evidence Surfaces

“Some evidence that I believe proves that the SCOsource
licensing program in 2004 was a right to use SVRX code, which would
make it code SCO has to pay royalties received to Novell and which
it must ask Novell’s permission to license under the terms of the
APA. That is not what SCOfolk testified to at the bench trial in
2008, where they presented the SCOsource license as protection from
litigation or in one case as shared libraries. So this is a new
piece of evidence to add to the pile that indeed at least some of
the SCOsource licenses were right to use licenses for SVRX
code.

“Here’s the page that now resolves properly on Internet Archive:
SCO’s SCOsource License Program page. The page describes the
licensing offering that was SCOsource as of 2004:

“Since the license pertains to SCO IP that the end user already
received in the unauthorized Linux distribution, the SCO license
doesn’t include a media kit.

“See? SCOsource was not just about buying SCO off so they
wouldn’t sue you. The conceit was that Linux users had already
received the code, albeit improperly in SCO’s twisted thinking, so
no code needed to be distributed with the license. They already had
it.”

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