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On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 08:24:23PM +0100, Danny van Dyk wrote: |
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> Am Samstag, 3. M?rz 2007 19:48 schrieb Thomas R?sner: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > |
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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 |
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> > > "Copyright (C) XXXX Gentoo Foundation" is useless in most countries |
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> > > of the EU. E.g, *none* of the stuff that I ever commited to |
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> > > Gentoo's repositories is copyrighted (solely) by the Gentoo |
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> > > Foundation, due to me being German citizen and writing that stuff |
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> > > in Germany. FYI, there isn't even something like Copyright in |
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> > > Germany. We have an "Author's right" which agree with the Berne |
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> > > Convention and deviates from copyright in several points. |
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> > |
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> > Except that you "giving away copyright" or "donating to public |
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> > domain" is understood by (german) courts to give away usage rights, |
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> > which is exactly what is intended, no? |
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> That doesn't come down to the effects for the Gentoo Foundation: |
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> Corporation Foo uses the Gentoo-x86 tree in violation of GPL. Foundation |
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> tries to sue them, as they think they have the copyright. Corporation |
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> Foo's lawyers say: Uh, you don't even have the copyright on all of |
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> gentoo-x86. See the problem? |
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No, the foundation has copyright on portions of it, and they are allowed |
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to assert that copyright. So everything is just fine. |
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thanks, |
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greg "i've talked to too many lawyers lately" k-h |
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