Re: GPL traitor !

[Rjack]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> Rjack wrote:
> > The revulsion you demonstrate for 17 USC 301 clearly foretells
> > its potential to destroy your dreams of creating new copyrights 
> > through contractual fiat. Cavalierly dismissing it as "idiocy"
> > won't make it go away though.
>
> No, no - I'm not dismissing 17 USC 301 as idiocy, I'm dismissing 
> your ludicrous opinion that it applies to the GPL as idiocy. The 
> GPL is a copyright license and it operates under normal federal 
> copyright law. Your unwillingness to recognize this and the 
> resultant twisting and spinning required to justify it is what 
> demonstrates your idiocy.

Yeah...

"Although the United States Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C.  101-
1332, grants exclusive jurisdiction for infringement claims to the
federal courts, those courts construe copyrights as contracts and
turn to the relevant state law to interpret them."; Automation by
Design, Inc. v. Raybestos Products Co., 463 F.3d 749, (United
States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit 2006).

Sincerely,
Rjack