Alexander Terekhov wrote:
"THIRD AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE (JOINT OWNERSHIP)
On information and belief, Defendant alleges that Plaintiffs’ claims
are barred because other third parties jointly created the alleged
copyright at issue and those third parties are joint copyright owners
of the alleged copyright at issue in this action.
FOURTH AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE (INDISPENSABLE PARTIES)
On information and belief, Defendant alleges that Plaintiffs’ claims
are barred because there are indispensable parties that have not been
joined in this lawsuit, including the other authors and/or owners of
the alleged copyright at issue."
Actually BusyBox is a thousand headed Hydra of derivative work - joint
work compilations. After ten thousand patches BusyBox is a huge kettle
of spaghetti code with fifty authors that is so entangled that even
Humpty Dumpty's maintainers can never untangle it again.
Sincerely,
RJack :)
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