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Linus 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
by rectang 3y ago
Linus 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.