(OT) - NOT A Major Blow to Copyleft Theory

[Russ Nelson]

Alexander Terekhov writes:
 > Here, however, Plaintiff has not retained any underlying copyright to
 > the Decoder Definition files and at no time or under any circumstance
 > do the exclusive copyright rights revert back to Plaintiff.

That's where the judge screwed up.  In fact the Plaintiff *does*
retain copyright, and grants a license ONLY under certain conditions.

The judge also doesn't understand that when software is freely
copyable, the main economic value to the Plaintiff is in having
authorship acknowledged.

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