Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:46:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:46:54 -0400 Received: from mail.consumerprivacyguide.org ([206.112.85.61]:53441 "EHLO mail.cdt.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:46:53 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:52:58 -0400 Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v548) Cc: Xavier Bestel , Ben Collins , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List To: Robert Love From: Daniel Berlin In-Reply-To: <1035150671.16888.300.camel@phantasy> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.548) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 888 Lines: 26 On Sunday, October 20, 2002, at 05:51 PM, Robert Love wrote: > On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 17:42, Xavier Bestel wrote: > >> You're plain wrong. >> >> You both have the copyright on your work. > > It is called copyright _assignment_ for a reason. How the hell are two > people supposed to simultaneously own a copyright on the same work? > Joint authorship. "The authors of a joint work are co-owners of copyright in the work" (17 USC ?201(a)). IOW They each own a 100% copyright in the work. Leads to odd situations of course, since one author can do whatever they like with the work without any permission from the other authors, etc. --Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/