Well, if everything else is a derivative...then how can anyone claim to be the original owner? I mean how many original owners can you have? There can only be one, whether the license says you can transfer it to 10,000 people...right?
So help me understand your earlier point. To charge that someone has violated a copyright, doesn't the original owner have to make the charge? Otherwise, we don't know where the true property rights ----started right? kb -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 3:21 PM To: Ken Brown Cc: 'daniel wallace'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: The Copyright Act preempts the GPL Ken Brown scripsit: > I think Daniel makes an interesting point. But let me ask since you > emailed me your conversations. Who is the original owner of Linux? Well (to be Clintonesque), that depends on what you mean by "Linux". I'll assume you mean the kernel. It also depends on whether a court views Linux as a derivative work (in which case the original owner is Linus, questionless), a joint work, or a collective work. My guess would be that it's one of the latter two possibilities. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! `Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
