On wo, 2006-06-21 at 13:52 -0500, Jacob Kaplan-Moss wrote:
> We don't; my conversations with the company lawyers seemed to
> indicate that you're implicitly assigning copyright simply by
> submitting code to an OSS project. Of course IANAL, but I'm going to
> trust what the ones we talked to say because they, well, are.
Wikipedia[1] says:
Under the U.S. Copyright Act, a transfer of ownership in
copyright must be memorialized in a writing signed by the
transferor. For that purpose, ownership in copyright includes
exclusive licenses of rights. Thus exclusive licenses, to be
effective, must be granted in a written instrument signed by the
grantor. No special form of transfer or grant is required. A
simple document that identifies the work involved and the rights
being granted is sufficient.
That says something entirely different. ;-)
Also I think those company lawyers didn't really think about the
international aspect of "copyright law" (in many countries authors
retain their moral rights forever).
Of course, like you said, when people release their code under the BSD
license, there shouldn't be much of a problem when they keep the
copyright...
[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_copyright_law>
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