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And when Linus who owns the entirety of the Linux copyright created the mirror, he agreed to the TOS. You're playing a dumb game and what I find odd about licen
by bastardoperator 3y ago
And when Linus who owns the entirety of the Linux copyright created the mirror, he agreed to the TOS. You're playing a dumb game and what I find odd about license zealots is their inability to respect licences that they're not forcing on others. Have any more prime examples you need debunked?
- rectang 3y agoLinus Torvalds doesn’t own all the copyright on Linux — Linux doesn’t require copyright assignment from contributors. > You're playing a dumb game For what it’s worth I’m not a lawyer and surely get some things wrong but licensing is an area where I have a certain amount of practical experience. There’s some interesting ground to cover on this topic but we aren’t getting there and the incivility isn’t helping. Please consider this passage from the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
- bastardoperator 3y ago"Linux® is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries." Also, take it up with Torvalds: "And yes, at least under US copyright law, and at least if you see Linux as a "collective work" (which is arguably the most straightforward reading og copyright law, but perhaps not the only one) I am actually the sole owner of copyright in the *collective* work of the Linux kernel." If you believe Linus, and I do, you can see how your argument is devoid of logic when Linus himself owns the collective work and put it on GitHub.