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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 19:04:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>, Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>,
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Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new
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On 20 Oct 2002, Robert Love wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 18:52, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday, October 20, 2002, at 05:51  PM, Robert Love wrote:
> > 
> > > 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 FSF Copyright Assignment is not joint authorship, it is copyright
> assignment.  They alone possess the work's copyright.
Of course.
But you asked "How the hell are two people supposed to simultaneously own 
a copyright on the same work?"
The answer is "Joint authorship".

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