Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 09:33:54 EST


On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Sunday 20 October 2002 17:53, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > 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.

> 3) The creator of a work doesn't always get the copyright, at least in
> the US.

Please see above. It's possible the FSF copyright assignment
just can't be legal in some countries.

Rik

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