On 2/10/2010 5:22 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Heck, are you seriously suggesting that the GPL doesn't intend to "protect" user's rights indended to be equal to the developers rights and that co-author's developer rights under the GPL are not equal rights to the other co-author(s)
People who release code under the GPL grant others the right to create derivative works and copy and distribute those works provided that they are distributed under the GPL. There is no basis for claiming that a person releasing code under the GPL is volunteering to give downstream authors joint copyright in the original work. Indeed, the GPL, as a copyright license, enumerates the only ways that another author may prepare and copy and distribute derivative works outside of what copyright law alone would permit, and since the GPL does not grant such other authors joint copyright, they do not have it. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
