Novell's Petition for Writ of Certiorari - as text

 
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Old 03-13-2010
Novell's Petition for Writ of Certiorari - as text

We have the Novell's Petition for a Writ of Ceriorari [PDF] as text. This is its petition, asking the US Supreme Court to review the decision by the US Court of the Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Odds are always against the petitioner to the U.S. Supreme Court, of course, and the earliest it could be heard would be in April, we learned from a remark at Friday's trial in SCO v. Novell, so the trial will be over before this is heard, even if it beats the odds. Nevertheless, it's an important document, because it raises an important question: how should copyright transfers be evidenced? US Copyright law requires a writing, but what should happen if the writing isn't clear about which copyrights, if any, were conveyed. Should it be up to a jury to decide and more or less make it up out of the memories of participants of yore?
You think I jest. Not at all. That is exactly what is happening in SCO v. Novell currently in the trial. How would you like to have your copyright ownership decided like that?

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Net::LDAP::Extra::eDirectory(3) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   Net::LDAP::Extra::eDirectory(3)

NAME
Net::LDAP::Extra::eDirectory -- extensions for Novell eDirectory SYNOPSIS
use Net::LDAP::Extra qw(eDirectory); $ldap = Net::LDAP->new( ... ); ... if ($ldap->is_eDirectory) my $mesg $ldap->list_replicas($server_dn); print "Replicas on $server_dn * " . join(" * ", $mesg->replicas) . " " if (!$mesg->code); } DESCRIPTION
Net::LDAP::Extra::eDirectory provides functions / LDAP extensions specific to Novell eDirectory. To do so, it provides the following methods: METHODS
is_eDirectory ( ) Tell if the LDAP server queried is Novell eDirectory server. As the check is done by querying the root DSE of the directory, it works without being bound to the directory. In contrast to other Net::LDAP methods this method returns TRUE / FALSE respectively undef on error. list_replicas ( SERVER_DN, OPTIONS ) Query the the replicas on the given server SERVER_DN. On success, the resulting Net::LDAP::Message object supports the method "replicas" that returns the list of replicas on SERVER_DN. get_replica_info ( SERVER_DN, REPLICA_DN, OPTIONS ) Query information of REPLICA_DN on SERVER_DN. On success, the resulting Net::LDAP::Message object supports the method "replica_info" that returns a hash containing information on REPLICA_DN. trigger_backlinker ( OPTIONS ) Trigger the BackLinker process, which resolves external references to ensure they refer to real entries. trigger_janitor ( OPTIONS ) Trigger the Janitor process, which checks connectivity to all servers in database. trigger_limber ( OPTIONS ) Trigger the Limber process, which verifies the server name, internal ipx address and tree connectivity of all replicas. trigger_skulker ( OPTIONS ) Trigger the Skulker process, which checks the synchronization status of every server in the replica ring. trigger_schemasync ( OPTIONS ) Trigger SchemaSync. trigger_partitionpurge ( OPTIONS ) Trigger PartitionPurge. refresh_ldap_server ( OPTIONS ) Trigger refreshing the NLDAP service. AUTHOR
Peter Marschall <peter@adpm.de> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2013 Peter Marschall. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.16.3 2013-06-07 Net::LDAP::Extra::eDirectory(3)