On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 11:08:17AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > From my understanding, there can only be one copyright holder over a > specific creative work. When two or more entities both claim copyright > over a work, they're actually claiming rights over different parts of the > work. Identifying whose parts are whose isn't always possible, but that's > not an issue in the case under discussion.
This isn't true -- copyright law allows for joint ownership of copyright for a work, i.e. both owners have full rights to copy the work under any licence conditions they wish, independently of each other. OpenOffice.org appears to exactly this arrangement for its contributions: see the FAQ entries about their Joint Copyright Assignment at http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html#jca1 -Andrew. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
