[Liberal Classic]

I do not believe that a BSD copyright will discourage SCO. One of SCO's goals is to call into question all "unauthorized UNIX implementations" not just Linux.

[justlurking]

I do not believe that a BSD copyright will discourage SCO.

The code pre-dates SCO's implementation, and indicates that SCO actually copied it from BSD. That's legal under the BSD copyright, until they claimed it as their own.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Boies -- you can count on it -- will reach around and pull yet another amazing thing out of his rear end. He's already argued against the GPL, not on high-minded national security grounds like the tweet guy (one could at least respect that while disagreeing profoundly), but rather purporting that Federal law forbids the delegation of copyright!

[Nick Danger]

I do not believe that a BSD copyright will discourage SCO.

A court is unlikely to take seriously any attempt by SCO to re-litigate the settlement reached between Unix System Laboratories/Novell and Berkeley over just these issues. To the extent SCO inherited AT&T's contracts and AT&T's UNIX IP, it also inherited the settlement reached in 1994.

In its never-ending silliness campaign, SCO will no doubt claim they intend to do just that, but no judge is going to let them re-open an issue that was settled nine years ago by the then-owners of the properties.