SCO Tries To Tack Copyright Infringement To IBM Claim
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“SCO’s attempt to add a major copyright infringement claim to its existing lawsuit against IBM was heard by a Utah court on Friday.
The Lindon, Utah-based Unix company filed a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against IBM last March based on alleged contractual violations. But in recent days, SCO upped the ante with an additional copyright infringement claim against Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM that could bring the General Public License (GPL) under the legal spotlight.
The amended complaint was filed Feb. 4, according to an SCO spokesman. In March, SCO filed a claim charging that IBM violated its Unix Systems V contract by donating Unix code to the Linux kernel. Now copyright infringement is on the table against IBM.
‘We’re emphasizing our copyright claim,’ SCO spokesman Mark Modersitzki said Friday.”