Ben Reser wrote:
The problem here is exactly that. Assignment is a double edged
sword. Assignment makes it easier for one individual to litigate
against people who violate the license (which means violating the
copyright). But it also permits the assignee to change the license for future
Ben Reser said on Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:27:35PM -0800,:
He may be hired by a commercial software firm who pays him a large
sum of money to turn the application closed source and work on it
Ah, well. You are right. Bu the loss is not for ever.
But, other persons can always take the code
Ben Reser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The problem here is exactly that. Assignment is a double edged
sword. Assignment makes it easier for one individual to litigate
against people who violate the license (which means violating the
copyright). But it also permits the assignee to change the
Gream, Matthew wrote:
This is the case in the UK under the CDPA 1988, for both cases of copyright
assignment (s.90) and exclusive licenses (s.92): they must be in writing and
signed. Whether any interpretation, in light of other legal instruments or
case law, recognises digital signatures as
Each source file is tagged with a header naming him as copyright
followed by a GPL header. For anybody to submit a patch to the
original distribution, you agree that he gets copyright of it.
In most countries, an assignment of copyright has to be in
writing and on paper. So an e-mail
Gream, Matthew wrote:
That's Directive 96/9/EC. I do not think the sui generis
database protection can be applied to computer programs. There
has to be qualitatively and/or quantitatively a substantial
investment in either the obtaining, verification or presentation of
the contents (art.
Mahesh,
The nearest analogy from literature I can think of at the moment is X
being a grammar text book and Y my essay, which conforms to grammar
in that text book. Is my essay a derivative of the grammar book?
Example is too far-fetched. What if Y were a separate book
with extensive
Abe Kornelis scripsit:
The nearest analogy from literature I can think of at the moment is X
being a grammar text book and Y my essay, which conforms to grammar
in that text book. Is my essay a derivative of the grammar book?
Example is too far-fetched. What if Y were a separate book
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 10:24:55AM +0100, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote:
That's a realistic worry, although if all those people license
their code under GPL, they cannot revoke that license and stop
distribution of the program. A bigger issue is if in the future
the project wants to change the
ti EMAIL wrote:
A piece of software I regularly use is released under the GPL. My
concern is how the original writer and maintainer accepts patches.
Each source file is tagged with a header naming him as copyright
followed by a GPL header. For anybody to submit a patch to the
original
Mahesh T. Pai scripsit:
If you do not like assigning copyright to the original author, you
are free to create your own fork by adding your modifications, and
distribute the whole thing yourselves. People did it to GNU Emacs by
creating Xemacs.
You are indeed free to do this, but it
ti EMAIL said on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 03:38:59AM -0500,:
Each source file is tagged with a header naming him as copyright
followed by a GPL header. For anybody to submit a patch to the
original distribution, you agree that he gets copyright of it.
Requiring assignment of copyright in
Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
[...]
Regarding legal binding -- In all these years, only the SCO
has been silly enough to question its bindingness.
OTOH, SCO is probably in full agreement with Linus on this:
groups.google.com/groups?selm=ZhWT-39U-3%40gated-at.bofh.it
quote
Yes, but they will cite
Alexander Terekhov said on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 07:06:40PM +0100,:
Now replace kernel with SysV UNIX and GPL with
confidential (OCO or something like that). How nice.
I consider this as a bug with the law - silliness of treating programs
as analogous to `literary, artistic and dramatic
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