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Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org>
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On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 18:52, Daniel Berlin wrote:

> On Sunday, October 20, 2002, at 05:51  PM, Robert Love wrote:
> 
> > It is called copyright _assignment_ for a reason.  How the hell are two
> > people supposed to simultaneously own a copyright on the same work?
> >
> Joint authorship.

The FSF Copyright Assignment is not joint authorship, it is copyright
assignment.  They alone possess the work's copyright.

	Robert Love