Novell issues High Noon Sequent demand to SCO

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Now Novell has filed a letter it wrote to its friends at SCO which appears to kick out the props from under the Sequent claims.

In a letter from the chief Novell lawyer to the general counsel of SCO, a letter sent to Sequent - now owned by IBM - proposed the termination of a SVRX licence agreement. That's a proposal that Sequent-IBM declined to admit.

SCO based its position on a clause which includes rights to modify software and derivative works, but Novell's stance is that this piece of the agreement "merely confirms" that AT&T kept ownership of its code, even if it was used in a derivative work. So it doesn't impose confidentiality or use restrictions on Sequent code.

According to a PDF filed on the Novell site, SCO has until noon today, MDT time, to waive purported rights to Sequent-IBM as being subject to confidentiality obligations of the SVRX licence. So it's a gunfight at the not-so-OK corrall... µ

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Novell PDF