Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

[Rahul Dhesi]

"amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:

>I think that you are misreading the situations.  Certainly a copyright
>owner who is selling access to his work is not interested in giving it
>away.  That makes sense.  But the BusyBox authors are totally willing
>to give their work away and have been doing so for years.  The only
>thing that they are hammering their users in regard to is for not
>publishing the acknowledgement and code itself on the user's own
>site....

No, they are not giving it away. They are giving permission to others to
use their work only so long as the others abide by their conditions. As
soon as the other person violates these condition, the permission is
withdrawn. This is not the same as "giving it away".  A better term is
"licensing'.

The fourth sentence I quoted above is better rewritten thus:

  But the BusyBox authors are totally willing to license their work and
  have been doing so for years.
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Rahul
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