Drazen Kacar wrote:
[...]
I don't know what is narrowly tailored waiver supposed to look like.
Something along the lines below? ;-)
http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/MySQL_Contributor_License_Agreement
2.4 You hereby waive any and all moral rights you may have in any of
the Contributions,
You should file your bug report with your distribution and let them
forward it. They will know whether the bug is truly in the
upstream release or in something they have added and will be able
to provide more information and testing and consolidate multiple
reports of the same
Merijn de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Basically, this says if Sun ever forgets to credit you,
or performs something you consider a mutilation of your
work, you won't sue Sun.
That's basically true. If such a thing weren't there, then other
contributors (including both people inside Sun
Casper H.S Dik wrote:
Drazen Kacar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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.
James Carlson wrote:
Drazen Kacar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
James Carlson wrote:
That's void under my local copyright law,
Perhaps. I'm not a lawyer, nor do I pretend to be one. Particularly
so for the .hr domain.
Well, the .hr domain has copyright law which is similar to
James Carlson wrote:
Merijn de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Basically, this says if Sun ever forgets to credit you,
or performs something you consider a mutilation of your
work, you won't sue Sun.
That's basically true. If such a thing weren't there, then other
contributors
Drazen Kacar wrote:
[...]
Irish copyright law gives such moral rights to individuals, the said
rights are not transferable and there's no way to give them up, as
far as Irish law is concerned.
http://www.icla.ie/index.php?information
Moral rights may be waived, but a waiver must be in
Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Drazen Kacar wrote:
[...]
Irish copyright law gives such moral rights to individuals, the said
rights are not transferable and there's no way to give them up, as
far as Irish law is concerned.
http://www.icla.ie/index.php?information
Moral rights may
Drazen Kacar writes:
USA is as arbitrary third location from my point of view. The whole USA,
not just California. And I certainly don't want to be dragged in any USA
court.
Governed by California law does not mean governed by California courts.
It just means that whatever court is
On 2006-10-20, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Merijn de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Basically, this says if Sun ever forgets to credit you,
or performs something you consider a mutilation of your
work, you won't sue Sun.
That's basically true. If such a thing weren't there, then
Drazen Kacar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nonsense. It protects both Sun and the contributor from being dragged
to arbitrary third locations to defend themselves.
Dragged by whom? USA is as arbitrary third location from my point of
view. The whole USA, not just California. And I certainly
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On 2006-10-18, Mike Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(4) In other places they claim they're doing this because
GNU, Debian, and the BSDs are requiring copyright transfer as
well [1]. Well I know that some GNU projects recommend it (emacs,
libstdc++),
Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 2006-10-18, Mike Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(4) In other places they claim they're doing this because GNU,
Debian, and the BSDs are requiring copyright transfer as well
[1]. Well I know that some GNU projects recommend it (emacs,
libstdc++), but by
Mike Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On a related subject, we have developed a kernel mode driver for our
Microsoft Wireless Optical Mice with Tilt Wheel Technology,
complete with device file in /dev and all needed ioctls necessary
for querying signal strength, battery life status, and other
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
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
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
Drazen Kacar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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. And then:
Why is that void in you
Casper H.S. Dik writes:
Why is that void in you rlocal law? (Just interested).
In some jurisdictions you are not permitted to give up your moral
rights.
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
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Mike Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Question to the nice folks in g.m.d...
I have a couple of nice patches I would like to contribute to
the Gentoo project, but I have some doubts. As some people
probably already know, Gentoo requires that their contributors
transfer copyright of all
Mike Cox wrote:
[...]
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/copyright/index.xml
GNU...GNU...GNU...To summarize: copyright assignment refers to
the process of legally changing the ownership of intellectual
property.
Hey ueber GNUtian ams, care to educate Gentoonians that
intellectual
Michael Black wrote:
... snip ...
Individual distributions may have their own programs (such as the
installer programs), and they may compile the rest in different ways,
but generally there isn't much that is different from the rest. And
if a patch is actually useful to a program, it
Michael writes:
If the bug is with a program, the patch should go to the program's
developer. If they are applying the patch to 3rd party programs, then
it's basically a fork, a new version of an existing program.
When I receive a bug report on one of my packages with a patch that I think
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael writes:
And if a patch is actually useful to a program, it should be folded
into the actual program itself.
Yes, but let the distribution forward it.
If the distribution claims copyright on the patch, this can prevent it
from being folded into
You should file your bug report with your distribution and let them
forward it. They will know whether the bug is truly in the
upstream release or in something they have added and will be able
to provide more information and testing and consolidate multiple
reports of the same bug.
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(4) In other places they claim they're doing this because GNU,
Debian, and the BSDs are requiring copyright transfer as well
[1]. Well I know that some GNU projects recommend it (emacs,
libstdc++), but by far not all; and I have heard
Question to the nice folks in g.m.d...
I have a couple of nice patches I would like to contribute to
the Gentoo project, but I have some doubts. As some people
probably already know, Gentoo requires that their contributors
transfer copyright of all contributed material to the
Gentoo
Mike Cox writes:
It says there legal action is only possible if all copyright is owned by
a single entity.
Not true.
In other places they claim they're doing this because ... Debian ... [is]
requiring copyright transfer as well...
Not true.
I have heard first hand that Debian not only
Mike Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) writes:
Question to the nice folks in g.m.d...
I have a couple of nice patches I would like to contribute to
the Gentoo project, but I have some doubts. As some people
probably already know, Gentoo requires that their contributors
transfer copyright of all
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