Snit wrote: > > Hyman Rosen stated in post [email protected] on 2/11/10 > 12:42 PM: > > > On 2/11/2010 2:37 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote: > >> A joint work can be created without any license at all. > > > > But when there is a license, the presumption is > > that the license states the terms. > > > >> The GPL doesn't have to say anything about joint works > >> (just like in the case of no license at all) for a joint > >> work created that is available to non-coauthors under the > >> GPL. Coauthors don't need any non-exclusive license -- > >> they have exclusive ownership!!! > > > > They cannot be co-authors except as they accept the GPL, > > because they otherwise have no permission to create a > > derivative work from GPL-licensed code. > > Their freedom is limited.
The GPL seeks to deny creators of contributions forming derivative work their copyright ownership in the sense that contributors are purportedly impeded to license their copyright as they see fit and should use the GPL and only the GPL instead. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html "Creator The term creator as applied to authors implicitly compares them to a deity (the creator). The term is used by publishers to elevate authors' moral standing above that of ordinary people in order to justify giving them increased copyright power, which the publishers can then exercise in their name. We recommend saying author instead. However, in many cases copyright holder is what you really mean." But who said that such pinky-anarchy-commie intent will be enforced in a capitalist legal system court? Only utter morons could seriously believe in that. P.S. "It is just like a suit to enforce a copyright license, which arises under state law rather than under the Copyright Act. " Hyman's lovin' http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gaiman_v._McFarlane P.P.S. "the registered work is a compilation" Hyman's lovin' http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gaiman_v._McFarlane -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
