In multiple European countries, copyright is absolutely non-transferrable
(except for employment contracts and after the death of the owner). FSF
very likely doesn't know about this. I'm mot gonna mention those countries,
because it'd strip up some madeness, even GPL wasn't a legally valid
license in different EU countries up until recently. Nobody ever cared.
I'd assume that this rejection is somehow based on the U.S. trade embargo.
Lubos
Dne 6. září 2013 6:11:35 Gregory Casamento <[email protected]> napsal:
Discrimination isn't legal here in the US either. I believe that the
reason might be a question of copyright transfer not being entirely clear
in some countries, but that's only conjecture on my part at this point.
I have sent a request for clarification to Donald to see what his reasoning
is. If needed I'll elevate the issue higher.
Greg
On Thursday, September 5, 2013, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> Maybe it would be possible to assign the copyright to the FSF Europe? I
> don't think such discrimination is legal over here. In that case we could
> think about bringing the whole GNUstep project over to Europe.
>
> Fred
>
> On the road
>
> Am 05.09.2013 um 20:48 schrieb Gregory Casamento
<[email protected]<javascript:;>
> >:
>
> > Donald is the copyright clerk at the FSF so it's safe to assume he knows
> what he's talking about. Honestly, this is one of the ways that the
> copyright assignment holds us back. I'm sure Muhammad is not the only
> person who is in this situation.
> >
> > Gregory Casamento
> > [email protected] <javascript:;>
> > Open Logic Corporation, President/CEO
> > GNUstep Lead Developer
> >
> >
> > On Sep 5, 2013, at 2:40 PM, Muhammad Hussein Nasrollahpour <
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> >
> >> Donald R. Robertson
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