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Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits

Posted by kdawson on from the setting-the-record-straight dept.

Bruce Perens writes "I'm the creator of the Busybox program. I have released a statement on the past and current Busybox lawsuits, which do not represent my interest."

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  1. Re:Backing Bruce's Copyright by benjamindees · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Anderson is claiming complete Copyright and that is simply an impossibility. As far as I am concerned, this claim is a GPL violation in and of itself.

    This is exactly the most disturbing issue to me here. Being able to re-write GPL code and then claim sole copyright on that new code would completely invalidate the entire concept of derivative work on which the GPL and every other software license is based.

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    "I assumed blithely that there were no elves out there in the darkness"