Re: Problem with GPLv3 FAQ about linking with Visual C++

[RJack]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> On 2/8/2010 2:44 PM, RJack wrote:
> > So now you are claiming that eight years later in (Dec. 2009) that
> > 14 companies are distributing a *specific* arrangement
> > (compilation) of source code that Erik Andersen himself personally
> > "arranged" as an original work in 2001?
>
> No. I see that failure to read is included among your many failings.
>
> <http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gaiman_v._McFarlane> McFarlane’s
> registrations no more revealed an intent to claim copyright in
> Gaiman’s contributions, as distinct from McFarlane’s own
> contributions as compiler and illustrator, than the copyright notices
>  did
>
> Erik Anderson registered copyright in BusyBox because he is an author
> of some of it, and needed to register in order to pursue an
> infringement claim. As you can see from the court case, it is
> legitimate to do so.

Just a post ago, according to you, Erik Andersen was the author of a
compilation or collective work. Now a post later, he is the author of
"some of it".  If he's claiming infringement of busybox-0.60.3 which he
claims to author, it has to be a *specific* compilation that was
distributed by Best Buy et. al. If he claims he's the "author of some of
it", then contrary to his Complaint:

"20. Mr. Andersen is the author and developer of the BusyBox computer
program, and the owner of copyrights in that computer program. BusyBox
is a single computer program that comprises a set of computing tools and
optimizes them for computers with limited resources, such as cell
phones, PDAs, and other small, specialized electronic devices."

Andersen is *not* the author and developer of busybox-0.60.3. He is the
author and owner of *some* source code modules (all of which have be
modified numerous times by other authors. See the patch history) in a
program published in Nov. 2001.

I know you would like to have your cake and eat it too Hyman but the
World doesn't work that way. Sorry. If you claim substantial similarity
and infringement of a copyrighted work you'd better be prepared to point
to that particular work of authorship.

"The Captain's scared them out of the water!"
http://www.fini.tv/blog/finishing_line_files/a44f9390355368f87dc47b7ec094f93e-36.php

ROFL. ROFL. ROFL.

Sincerely,
RJack