Rjack wrote:
Thank God Hyman finally admitted there are "rights holders" -- that's *PLURAL* (see the 's' in 'holders'?) as in "bilateral parties". Maybe there's hope for Hyman after all.
I was actually referring to the many people who release under the GPL, but of course combined works have many rights holders, the individual authors who have contributed to the work. Each of those authors individually, not bilaterally, under 17 USC 106, authorizes the making and distribution of (possibly modified) copies of the piece he himself controls provided certain conditions are met. When the author of a combined work distributes the work as a whole under the GPL, he may do this because he has the authorizations from each author. That authorization comes from each author having licensed his piece under the GPL or under a different license that permits distribution under the GPL. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
