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Hi, |
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Danny van Dyk schrieb: |
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> 2) There are countries who acutally adhere to the Berne Convention |
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> (1886). This means even the deed of commiting sources with a "Copyright |
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> (C) XXXX Gentoo Foundation" is useless in most countries of the EU. |
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> E.g, *none* of the stuff that I ever commited to Gentoo's repositories |
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> is copyrighted (solely) by the Gentoo Foundation, due to me being |
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> German citizen and writing that stuff in Germany. FYI, there isn't even |
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> something like Copyright in Germany. We have an "Author's right" which |
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> agree with the Berne Convention and deviates from copyright in several |
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> points. |
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Except that you "giving away copyright" or "donating to public domain" |
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is understood by (german) courts to give away usage rights, which is |
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exactly what is intended, no? |
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Regards, |
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Thomas |
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