On 6/11/05, Michael K. Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sitecom and Fortinet cases). But in order to demonstrate standing, > they're going to have to identify a work of authorship, not totally > subsumed in the Linux kernel development process, on which their > contribution rises to the level of co-author, as Harald Welte did with > respect to netfilter/iptables.
Many contributors to the linux kernel maintain and publish their own copies of a source tree as independent works. Only a small fraction of that work is incorporated into the "official" kernels. [Note: I'm not attempting to respond to every individual concept from that quoted sentence, I'm focussing on the first two clauses.] -- Raul
