|
From: | rjack |
Subject: | Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record |
Date: | Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:39:57 -0400 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) |
Tim Smith wrote:
In article <aHJgk.1205$ue.831@fe089.usenetserver.com>, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:The SFLC continues to file cases on behalf of their clients, who can therefore be assumed to be satisfied with the service they are receiving.What's puzzling is that rjack appears to be right about one very important thing, though. Doing a search of copyright registrations, I can't find one for Busybox (or for anything else by the people listed in the lawsuits as the copyright owners).It also doesn't appear the Busybox counts as a non-US Berne work, and so registration is a prerequisite to suit.Can anyone explain what is going on here? Is the search at www.copyright.gov not up to date? Are the defendants not bothering to check because they just assume the work must have been registered? Is Busybox actually a non-US Berne work?
From the S.F.L.C. suits: "6. Plaintiffs are authors and developers of the BusyBox computer program, and the owners of copyrights in that computer program." Here is a list of BusyBox developers from the BusyBox site. Who owns what copyrights in the BusyBox source code? _______________________________________________________________________________ The following login accounts currently exist on busybox.net. (I.E. these people can commit patches into subversion for the BusyBox, uClibc, and buildroot projects.) aldot :Bernhard Fischer andersen :Erik Andersen - uClibc and BuildRoot maintainer. bug1 :Glenn McGrath davidm :David McCullough gkajmowi :Garrett Kajmowicz - uClibc++ maintainer jbglaw :Jan-Benedict Glaw jocke :Joakim Tjernlund landley :Rob Landley - BusyBox maintainer lethal :Paul Mundt mjn3 :Manuel Novoa III osuadmin :osuadmin pgf :Paul Fox pkj :Peter Kjellerstedt prpplague :David Anders psm :Peter S. Mazinger russ :Russ Dill sandman :Robert Griebl sjhill :Steven J. Hill solar :Ned Ludd timr :Tim Riker tobiasa :Tobias Anderberg vapier :Mike Frysinger The following accounts used to exist on busybox.net, but don't anymore so I can't ask /etc/passwd for their names. Rob Wentworth asked Google and recovered the names: aaronl :Aaron Lehmann beppu :John Beppu dwhedon :David Whedon erik :Erik Andersen gfeldman :Gennady Feldman jimg :Jim Gleason kraai :Matt Kraai markw :Mark Whitley miles :Miles Bader proski :Pavel Roskin rjune :Richard June tausq :Randolph Chung vodz :Vladimir N. Oleynik http://busybox.net/FAQ.html#who _____________________________________________________________________________ How does one untangle all the interwoven source code from literally years of derivative and collective patches submitted by over thirty different programmers? The plaintiffs must identify only their own original works of authorship in the BusyBox source code in order to claim ownership of the copyrights. Sincerely, Rjack :) "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." -- John Adams, 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials,' December 1770
[Prev in Thread] | Current Thread | [Next in Thread] |