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Am Samstag, 3. März 2007 19:48 schrieb Thomas Rösner: |
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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 |
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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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> 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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Danny |
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Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@g.o> |
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Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project |
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