Re: Bye - Bye , open source derivative works litigation

[Hyman Rosen]

On 2/11/2010 3:14 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> The GPL seeks to deny creators of contributions forming derivative work
> their copyright ownership in the sense that contributors are purportedly
> impeded to license their copyright as they see fit and should use the
> GPL and only the GPL instead.

This is generally correct. Since those creators of derivative
works do not have the right to create them without permission
of the rights holders, caviling at the restrictions is pointless.
The restrictions are known, and if they are not acceptable to the
author who wishes to create a derivative work, then he should not
create that work.

> But who said that such intent will be enforced in a
> capitalist legal system court?

It is copyright law which is being enforced.