SCO group wins Unix copyright appeal
Published: 26 Aug 2009 08:27 BST
SCO Group, whose six-year-old legal case arguing Linux infringes its Unix copyright has not been enough to keep it from bankruptcy court, nevertheless won an important victory in its case on Monday.
A federal judge had earlier ruled that Novell had retained Unix copyrights when it sold its Unix business to the Santa Cruz Operation, a company whose Unix assets SCO Group later acquired.
However, the appeals court overturned that decision, based in part on a close reading of the Unix asset purchase agreement, sending the matter to trial for a decision. Yet the appeals court did uphold a ruling that SCO owed Novell royalty payments, according to a 55-page filing.
SCO Group chief executive Darl McBride was happy with the decision. "Today is not the end of the war but it certainly is a key battle that we've won," he said in a statement in the Salt Lake Tribune. "Now it's time to move on to the next series of battles with our victory in hand."
Credit: SCO Group wins Unix copyright appeal from CNET News
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