Re: The SFLC dismissals should be coming soon

[Hyman Rosen]

On 2/12/2010 8:09 PM, RJack wrote:
> The developers submit patches or a new source code module that amounts
> at most to a few hundreds of bytes.
>
> The BusyBox (remember -- "a single program") source tarball when
> unzipped is 7.75 *million* bytes.
>
> The claim that checking in a *few hundred bytes* of new code through GIT
> is contributing a "new derivative work" is pure nonsense.

<http://tushnet.blogspot.com/2009/04/settlement-disagreement-leads-to.html>
    Each new version of SG’s program is a separate derivative work,
    as set forth in SG’s registrations themselves.

Tell it to the court.