From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262263AbTF3W7x (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:59:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262813AbTF3W7x (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:59:53 -0400 Received: from khan.acc.umu.se ([130.239.18.139]:47581 "EHLO khan.acc.umu.se") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262263AbTF3W7w (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:59:52 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 01:14:13 +0200 From: David Weinehall To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Ricardo Galli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Dell vs. GPL Message-ID: <20030630231412.GB27500@khan.acc.umu.se> References: <200306291624.47221.gallir@uib.es> <20030629195003.GF26258@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <200306292158.52878.gallir@uib.es> <20030629204210.GA26758@mail.jlokier.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030629204210.GA26758@mail.jlokier.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 09:42:10PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Ricardo Galli wrote: > > 3.3 In general, the author of a computer programme is the natural or > > legal person or group of natural persons who created it. Where > > collective works are recognized by the legislation of a Member > > State, the person considered by the legislation of that Member State > > to have created the work is deemed to be its author. In the case of > > a programme created by a group of natural persons, the exclusive > > rights are owned jointly. Where a computer programme is created by > > an employee in the execution of his duties or following the > > instructions given by his employer, the employer alone will be > > entitled to exercise all economic rights in the programme, unless > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > otherwise provided for by contract. > > > > Note that it only mentions "economic rights". > > I was thinking of UK law. Excerpts from the Copyright, Designs and > Patents Act 1988: Laws passed by the EU stands over the national laws, hence the citizens can always appeal, and have the national laws declared void. This has happened a few times already in other areas, afaik. [snip] Regards: David Weinehall -- /) David Weinehall /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/