Drazen Kacar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> James Carlson wrote:
>
>>  Open Solaris requries a joint copyright arrangement.  You can read the
>>  details here:
>> 
>>    http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/sun_contributor_agreement/
>> 
>>  As the author you, of course, retain your copyright interest.  You
>>  don't have to give that away.
>
> Eh? But it says:
>
>    You agree never to assert against Sun or its licensees or transferees
>    any moral rights therein.
>
> That's void under my local copyright law, but the provision certainly is
> giving copyright rights away.

No, it is relinquishing those rights, not transferring them to anybody
else.  Fine difference.  Anyway, does anybody else find "moral rights"
a most peculiar expression in such a legal clause?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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