Re: Bye - Bye , open source derivative works litigation

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"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message 
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> On 2/11/2010 4:53 PM, RJack wrote:
> > If the "original authors" accept a developer's code to be integrated
> > into the BusyBox project they show their intent to include that new
> > contributor as a joint author.
>
> No, that's completely wrong. The new developers prepare
> work distributed under the GPL, distribute it to the
> original developers, and those developers prepare a
> derivative work based on the original program and the
> new piece, and distribute that under the GPL. No one
> is creating a joint work.

So taking someone else's work and republishing it as a whole is not joint 
authorship?  You are in an untenable position to be sure!