From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:47:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:47:16 -0400 Received: from 2-136.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br ([200.193.160.136]:51678 "EHLO 2-136.ctame701-1.telepar.net.br") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:47:14 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:53:09 -0200 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel X-X-Sender: riel@imladris.surriel.com To: Xavier Bestel cc: Robert Love , Ben Collins , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new In-Reply-To: <1035152407.967.11.camel@bip> Message-ID: X-spambait: aardvark@kernelnewbies.org X-spammeplease: aardvark@nl.linux.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 21 Oct 2002, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le dim 20/10/2002 à 23:51, Robert Love a écrit : > > The assignment says (I quote) "I hereby transfer... my entire right, > > title, and interest (including all rights under copyright)... in my > > program". > > 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. Germany (and France, judging from your words) have laws that guarantee that the creator of a work keeps copyright on the work. At least, part of the copyright cannot be signed over to other people or organisations. I wonder if this means the FSF can't accept contributions from these countries, or if they've found some weasel-words around the legislation of those countries... Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Current spamtrap: october@surriel.com