On 4/15/2010 6:34 PM, RJack wrote:
The value of a nonexclusive copyright license like the GPL
> is called its "contractual interest".
Something like this: <http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/sun-to-acquire-mysql.html> SANTA CLARA, CA January 16, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB, an open source icon and developer of one of the world's fastest growing open source databases for approximately $1 billion in total consideration. > What US law does not recognize is the value of "moral rights". You have apparently failed to notice 17 USC 106A. <http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/usc_sec_17_00000106---A000-.html> § 106A. Rights of certain authors to attribution and integrity ... (a bunch of stuff) ... (b) Scope and Exercise of Rights.— Only the author of a work of visual art has the rights conferred by subsection (a) in that work, whether or not the author is the copyright owner. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
