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From: "Thomas Rösner" <Thomas.Roesner@××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting)
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:47:04
Message-Id: 45E9C314.6030209@digital-trauma.de
In Reply to: Copyright, non-US devs and Gentoo Foundation vs Gentoo (Was: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting) by Danny van Dyk
1 Hi,
2
3 Danny van Dyk schrieb:
4 > 2) There are countries who acutally adhere to the Berne Convention
5 > (1886). This means even the deed of commiting sources with a "Copyright
6 > (C) XXXX Gentoo Foundation" is useless in most countries of the EU.
7 > E.g, *none* of the stuff that I ever commited to Gentoo's repositories
8 > is copyrighted (solely) by the Gentoo Foundation, due to me being
9 > German citizen and writing that stuff in Germany. FYI, there isn't even
10 > something like Copyright in Germany. We have an "Author's right" which
11 > agree with the Berne Convention and deviates from copyright in several
12 > points.
13 >
14
15 Except that you "giving away copyright" or "donating to public domain"
16 is understood by (german) courts to give away usage rights, which is
17 exactly what is intended, no?
18
19 Regards,
20 Thomas
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