Re: Copyright Misuse Doctrine in Apple v. Psystar

[Peter Köhlmann]

amicus_curious wrote:

> 
> "Rahul Dhesi" <c.c.eiftj@XReXXCopyr.usenet.us.com> wrote in message
> news:gnqh4u$9j9$2@blue.rahul.net...
>> "amicus_curious" <ACDC@sti.net> writes:
>>
>>>> The CAFC has ruled that these requirements are not meaningless.
>>>> --
>>>They suggested that the requirements were not meaningless to the
>>>copyright holders who get a thrill out of seeing their name in print,
>>>but that is meaningless to me.  I think that it speaks ill of those
>>>egomaniacs who want to create such a ruckus just so that the world
>>>might see how smart they are.  Pathetic.
>>
>> Perhaps you haven't read what the CAFC wrote. Here is a fragment.
>>
>>  Through this controlled spread of information, the copyright holder
>>  gains creative collaborators to the open source project; by requiring
>>  that changes made by downstream users be visible to the copyright
>>  holder and others, the copyright holder learns about the uses for his
>>  software and gains others' knowledge that can be used to advance
>>  future software releases.
>>
>> Please read the whole thing -- it's online at
> 
> I have read through it previously and I don't have any problem with the
> notion as a concept.  However, in the case of BusyBox, such hypothetical
> benefits did not accrue to the copyright holders.  There was no
> modification
> that changed the library for the authors' benefit or any user.  In the
> JMRI case, the district judge found the same thing to be true.
> 

Your severe reading comprehension problem is showing up again.
There is absolutely not requirement that the source has have to be 
"changed" in any shape or form by the GPL.

The mere fact that you are distributing the software (usually the 
binaries, or as firmware) requires the distributor to make the source (and 
the very *same* source for the binaries) available.
Failing to do so will put the distributor at odds with copyright law

Nobody can come up with "the source is not changed, hunt it down yourself"

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