Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++

[RJack]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> On 2/8/2010 1:40 PM, RJack wrote:
> > Just ask Bruce Perens and about twenty other BusyBox developers
>
> Registration 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