Gentoo Archives: gentoo-trustees

From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-trustees] joint copyright agreement
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 08:17:03
Message-Id: 20050825160543.GB10598@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-trustees] joint copyright agreement by Corey Shields
1 On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:40:47PM -0700, Corey Shields wrote:
2 > There is a clause in there for international issues such as this that would
3 > assign an irrevocable license to the use of such code that can not be jointly
4 > copyrighted. (I think that's in the FAQ) ;)
5
6 Joint copyright in the spirit of the documents mentioned before (which are,
7 essentially, exploitation rights in Europe) are perfectly legal in Europe
8 afaik.
9
10 I don't think anything in the documents refer to the moral rights of
11 the author.
12
13 Wkr,
14 Sven Vermeulen
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