Re: Bye - Bye , open source derivative works litigation

[RJack]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> On 2/11/2010 11:26 AM, RJack wrote:
> > 1) 2007-01-15 - ABA IP Journal Publishes Article by Skye Group
> > Managing Director: "The American Bar Association's Intellectual
> > Property Newsletter has published an article by Managing Director
> > Doug Hass entitled "The Myth of Copyleft Protection: Reconciling
> > the GPL and Linux with the Copyright Act. Read the article starting
> > on page 22 in the Fall 2006 issue."
>
> <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/SSRN_ID1261628_code372661.pdf?abstractid=1261628&mirid=1>
>
>
> "The FSF and the Linux community should embrace closed source code"
>
> So we see where this author is coming from. Thanks, but no thanks.
>
> The rest of this paper is useless. It spends a bunch of time pointing
>  out that the issue of whether separately loadable Linux kernel
> modules fall under the GPL could be complicated, but it's most likely
> that they don't. Um, OK. I think we all already know that. It's only
> the FSF that thinks otherwise, with their expansive and wrong view of
> what a derivative work is.


Your link addresses EC competition law. I have no working knowledge of
European law concerning these matters.


"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 :)