The Copyright Act preempts the GPL

[jcowan at reutershealth.com]

Ken Brown scripsit:
> I think Daniel makes an interesting point.  But let me ask since you
> emailed me your conversations.  Who is the original owner of Linux?  

Well (to be Clintonesque), that depends on what you mean by "Linux".  I'll
assume you mean the kernel.  It also depends on whether a court views Linux
as a derivative work (in which case the original owner is Linus, questionless),
a joint work, or a collective work.  My guess would be that it's one of the
latter two possibilities.

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