Re: The SFLC dismissals should be coming soon

[Hyman Rosen]

On 2/16/2010 4:09 PM, RJack wrote:
> Hyman: Uh your honor, I received permission from some unknown authors to
> create this derivative work. It's a new work known under copyright law
> as a derivative of a 'compilation of derivative works by unknown authors'.

The work is licensed. There is no reason to disbelieve the license,
when it is a well-known license used for a great deal of software.

Nothing in the definitions of collective work and derivative work
suggests that one cannot form a derivative work of a collective
work.