David Kastrup wrote: [...] > > BSD "copyright" didn't "come to cease" (it's too early for expiration > > and I'm unaware of any abandonment/dedications to the public domain of > > the BSD'd works) on the BSD'd portions that Apple changed unless > > Apple's changes resulted in a complete removal of BSD'd protected > > expression. > > Ah, so that means that according to your legal theories, we have a > "joint copyright" situation for those portions, and anybody can take any
It's quite reasonable to expect that Apple's BSD layer fork known as Darwin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system) work may well contain "joint copyright" portions, dak. I know this whole material is too complicated to grok for someone of your intellectual capacity... Hey GNUtian dak, BTW: http://www.tug.org/interviews/kastrup.html "Please note that shareware is not free software. The principal problem with free software as a business model is that there really is little in the way of bootstrapping it. Programmers tend to be mad scientists to some degree or other, and TeX programming mostly has attraction for the worst of those. This means that you often have people with a bad judgment concerning business requirements and project management and time planning and customer interaction. For proprietary software, this is less of a problem: if you are the only supplier for a marketable product, poor market interaction does not kill your business prospects. In a free software market, however, being the developer of a product gives you just a headstart for marketing your own product, but it does not put anybody else out of the race. " (LOL) Don't you know that http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html "Market It is misleading to describe the users of free software, or the software users in general, as a market." right, GNUtian dak? regards, alexander. P.S. "It is just like a suit to enforce a copyright license, which arises under state law rather than under the Copyright Act. " Hyman's lovin' http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gaiman_v._McFarlane P.P.S. "the registered work is a compilation" Hyman's lovin' http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gaiman_v._McFarlane -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss