Groklaw: Missing Copyright Notices in OpenLinux Project

“A reader sent me OpenLinux 2.3, and I decided I would take a
look and see if I could find any Caldera/USL/SCO copyright notices
on the header files SCO is complaining about. I couldn’t, but I
wasn’t sure I knew what I was doing (or more accurately, I was
pretty sure I didn’t), so I asked Dr Stupid to take a look at
OpenLinux, which I knew he owned, and see if he could find any
copyright notices on the header files. He checked and he finds no
such copyright notices.

“Can SCO sue folks successfully for failing to have copyright
notices on files that they themselves distributed–apparently for
years–without any such notices? Despite their knowing all along
what the sealed agreement said, even if the rest of the world did
not? What kind of upside-down Alice-in-Wonderland court would that
be…?”

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