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From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new
Date: 20 Oct 2002 18:23:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1035152606.16887.304.camel@phantasy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1035152407.967.11.camel@bip>

On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 18:20, Xavier Bestel wrote:

> Last time I looked, it wasn't possible to relinquish copyright on your
> own work, no matter what you sign. Maybe it's not like that in all
> countries, after all.

It is certainly not like that in the United States and in most European
countries.

For example, think of software written for any commercial software
developer.  Or, when you write a book, you sign the rights over to a
publisher.. etc. etc.

Copyright assignment is a normal part of the copyright process.

	Robert Love


  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-20 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 101+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-13 22:48 Bitkeeper outragem, old and new Richard Stallman
2002-10-13 22:57 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-13 23:00 ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-14  7:00   ` Xavier Bestel
2002-10-13 23:43 ` Rando Christensen
2002-10-14  0:18 ` Larry McVoy
2002-10-14  6:49   ` Kristian Koehntopp
2002-10-14  7:38     ` Tim Hockin
2002-10-14 11:40     ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-10-14 11:37   ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-10-14 16:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]   ` <E181WHl-00010N-00@fencepost.gnu.org>
     [not found]     ` <20021015193138.A4010@infradead.org>
     [not found]       ` <200210161856.g9GIu57t013710@santafe.santafe.edu>
     [not found]         ` <20021016201328.A24882@infradead.org>
2002-10-19 22:45           ` Bitkeeper outrage, " Richard Stallman
2002-10-19 23:12             ` Larry McVoy
2002-10-19 23:28               ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-20 15:46                 ` Ben Collins
2002-10-20 17:22                   ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-20 17:34                     ` Ben Collins
2002-10-20 17:45                       ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-22  3:13                         ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-25  0:27                           ` Andrew D Kirch
2002-10-20 19:15                       ` Robert Love
2002-10-20 21:42                         ` Xavier Bestel
2002-10-20 21:51                           ` Robert Love
2002-10-20 22:20                             ` Xavier Bestel
2002-10-20 22:23                               ` Robert Love [this message]
2002-10-20 22:53                               ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-20 23:35                                 ` Roman Zippel
2002-10-21  0:26                                 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-21 14:33                                   ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-21 15:18                                     ` Daniel Berlin
2002-10-22 11:12                                     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-10-22  8:19                                 ` Kristian Koehntopp
2002-10-22 11:06                               ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-10-20 22:52                             ` Daniel Berlin
2002-10-20 22:59                               ` Robert Love
2002-10-20 23:04                                 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-10-21  0:38                                   ` Rob Landley
2002-10-20 22:59                               ` Ben Collins
2002-10-20 23:04                                 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-10-20 22:47                           ` Daniel Berlin
2002-10-20 22:51                             ` Brad Hards
2002-10-21  7:51                               ` Xavier Bestel
2002-10-21 15:04                                 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-10-20 22:46                       ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-20 19:06                   ` Daniel Berlin
2002-10-19 23:48               ` Roman Zippel
2002-10-20  8:37                 ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-20 16:59               ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-20 17:20                 ` Jon Portnoy
2002-10-20 22:44                   ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-20 23:05                   ` John Jasen
2002-10-21  0:13                   ` Matt D. Robinson
2002-10-22  3:12                     ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-22  3:18                       ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-22  3:38                       ` Murray J. Root
2002-10-22  5:26                         ` [OT] " Hacksaw
2002-10-22  5:39                           ` Murray J. Root
2002-10-22  6:09                             ` Hacksaw
2002-10-22  6:12                             ` David Lloyd
2002-10-22 13:30                         ` Roman Zippel
2002-10-22 16:23                           ` Rik van Riel
2002-10-22 20:24                           ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-10-20 21:42               ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-10-21  2:42                 ` Larry McVoy
2002-10-21  2:20                   ` Rob Landley
2002-10-21  3:16                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2002-10-21  3:42                     ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-22 20:16                       ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-10-21  9:39               ` jbradford
2002-10-21 15:08                 ` Larry McVoy
2002-10-20  1:14             ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-10-20  2:00               ` Jon Portnoy
2002-10-20  2:18                 ` Murray J. Root
2002-10-20  8:38                   ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-20  2:46                 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-10-20  5:58                   ` Zac Hansen
2002-10-20  8:40                     ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-20  9:00                       ` Aaron Lehmann
2002-10-20  9:06                         ` David Lang
2002-10-20  9:21                         ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-20 15:08                         ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-10-21 12:46                       ` jbradford
2002-10-22 19:24                         ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-22 19:53                           ` [FLAMEWAR] Bitkeeper waffle jbradford
2002-10-20 12:42                     ` Bitkeeper outrage, old and new Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-10-20 15:05                     ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2002-10-20  8:33             ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-21 17:18               ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-21 17:56                 ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-10-22 20:13                   ` Allen Campbell
2002-10-22 20:32                     ` Nicolas Pitre
2002-10-22 22:28                       ` Allen Campbell
2002-10-23  7:10                   ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-23  7:24                     ` Mark Mielke
2002-10-24 16:54                       ` Richard Stallman
2002-10-14 16:55 ` Bitkeeper outragem, " Jeff Garzik
     [not found] <fa.f8i4p2v.1imcdgq@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.ebbrv0v.kjq1pk@ifi.uio.no>
2002-10-20 19:53   ` Bitkeeper outrage, " Russ Allbery
2002-10-20 20:04     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-20 21:39       ` Russ Allbery
     [not found] <fa.l1b0ccv.p34qob@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.h9pconv.14mklqe@ifi.uio.no>
2002-10-21 11:02   ` walt
2002-10-21 13:46     ` Roman Zippel

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