[CS-FSLUG] IBM moves for judgment on contract claims

[Fred Miller]

As has often been noted, the core of SCO's claims against IBM are a simple 
contract dispute over whether IBM has the right to contribute its own code to 
Linux. IBM has now moved for a partial summary judgment which would put an 
end to the contract charges; there is commentary on Groklaw, along with the 
memo in support (in PDF format). "The individuals who executed the licenses 
and were involved in their negotiation, on behalf of both AT&T and IBM, have 
offered unequivocal testimony that the agreements were not intended and 
should not be understood to preclude IBM's use and disclosure of homegrown 
code and contemporaneous documents reflect this interpretation of the 
licenses."

http://lwn.net/Articles/98036/

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