Comment Re:Backing Bruce's Copyright (Score 1) 316
Anderson is claiming complete Copyright and that is simply an impossibility. As far as I am concerned, this claim is a GPL violation in and of itself.
This is exactly the most disturbing issue to me here. Being able to re-write GPL code and then claim sole copyright on that new code would completely invalidate the entire concept of derivative work on which the GPL and every other software license is based.
You mean like completely re-writing UNIX and calling the result something else, therefore not derivative?