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From: | RJack |
Subject: | Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++ |
Date: | Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:44:23 -0500 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) |
Hyman Rosen wrote:
On 2/8/2010 1:40 PM, RJack wrote:Just ask Bruce Perens and about twenty other BusyBox developersRegistration of copyright is for the author's contribution to a work, or for the result of compiling the contributions of others into a single work. It does not necessarily claim ownership of the entire work. Please see Gaiman v. McFarlane, 360 F.3d 644 (7th Cir. 2004). Therefore, it is not relevant that there are other authors of BusyBox, or that they do not wish to enforce the GPL against infringers.
The code for busybox-0.60.3 was released in Nov. 2001. So now you are claiming that eight years later in (Dec. 2009) that 14 companies are distributing a *specific* arrangement (compilation) of source code that Erik Andersen himself personally "arranged" as an original work in 2001? "The creator of a compilation is entitled to copyright it as long as it’s a work “formed by the collection and assembling of preexisting materials or of data that are selected, coordinated, or arranged in such a way that the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship.” Hmmmm... where is that specific, exclusive arrangement of busybox-0.60.3 code? If Andersen claims a "specific* arrangement of 2001 BusyBox code to evade fraudulent registration then he has exactly zero chance of proving infringment of current 2009 BusyBox releases. Hyman sometimes I think you live so deep in the Land of GNU that reality is slipping from your grasp. "The Captain's scared them out of the water!" http://www.fini.tv/blog/finishing_line_files/a44f9390355368f87dc47b7ec094f93e-36.php ROFL. ROFL. ROFL. Sincerely, RJack
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