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Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL
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Hyman Rosen |
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Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL |
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Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:00:17 -0000 |
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On 8/20/2010 9:52 AM, RJack wrote:
It seems you have just nullified the AFC test's merger doctrine.
You do not understand, or deliberately lie about, the AFC test.
Here is what the court said in Gates Rubber:
<http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=11680749340692242274>
2. Filtration ...
(a) The Idea-Expression Dichotomy ...
At the other end of the abstractions spectrum, source and
object code, which are the literal elements of a program,
will almost always be found to be protectable expression
unless the doctrines of merger and scenes a faire come
into play.
The AFC test is for determining when non-literal copying has taken
place. When literal code has been copied, copyright infringement has
occurred, with the very limited exceptions the court mentions.
Anti-GPL cranks don't understand law and they don't understand
English. While they are more to be pitied than hated, they are
always to be corrected.
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, (continued)
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, RayLopez99, 2010/12/09
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, Hyman Rosen, 2010/12/08
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, RJack, 2010/12/08
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, David Kastrup, 2010/12/08
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, RJack, 2010/12/08
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL,
Hyman Rosen <=
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, RJack, 2010/12/08
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, Hyman Rosen, 2010/12/08
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, RJack, 2010/12/08
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, Hyman Rosen, 2010/12/08
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, RJack, 2010/12/08
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, Hyman Rosen, 2010/12/08
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, RayLopez99, 2010/12/09
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, Hyman Rosen, 2010/12/08
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, Hyman Rosen, 2010/12/08
- Re: The GPL and Patents: ROFL, RJack, 2010/12/08