Yeah, public domain never makes the copyright discussion with lawyers any
easier. Our assignment agreement is the process to give your copyright away.
I hope this makes things clearer not more confusing.
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Blair Murri <os...@live.com> wrote:
> And, contrary to popular conception, I read recently from a
> copyright attorney's blog that in the U.S. you cannot actually legally
> place something in the public domain. If you work for the Federal
> Government as an employee, your work is already in the public domain due
> to the Constitution, except that doesn't apply to contractors working for
> the Feds (which is the only way for the Feds to use copyright law to
> protect/control information. Of course they use other laws for what they
> don't want to share). Otherwise for public domain you have to wait until
> the copyright runs out (author's life + 95 years or some such nonsense
> these days).
>
> You can give away your work under copyright law, but you can't get rid of
> your copyright (while you are still alive).
>
> ------------------------------
> From: r...@robmensching.com
> Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 14:45:46 -0700
> To: wix-devs@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] [WiX-users] Add text to final window in burn
> bootstrapper/installer
>
>
> It is as true in grade school as it is when we're all grown up, you can't
> copy other people's stuff and say it's yours. Thus you also cannot give
> other people's stuff away without their permission.
>
> Since some number of governments decided that source code follows
> copyright law those simple rules hopefully make it clear who needs to sign
> the assignment agreement.
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Bob Arnson <b...@joyofsetup.com> wrote:
>
> On 31-Aug-13 11:18, Bruce Cran wrote:
> > Can't Steven put the change in the public domain and someone who's
> already signed the agreement can commit it?
> Moving to wix-devs and adding Rob. Remember, I'm not a lawyer but I play
> one on mailing lists. (In the following, "you" == "one" without sounding
> too pretentious.)
>
> As contributor, you're saying you have the rights to contribute the code
> you're contributing. If it's your code, that's the easiest/cleanest
> case. If you wrote it for your job, you might not have the rights to
> contribute it without getting your employer involved in the contributor
> agreement. (Labor law is nice and murky even within one country's borders.)
>
> Add one more person to the mix and it's even murkier.
>
> I don't want to lose out on valuable contributions but I do want to keep
> the IP paperwork in order.
>
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