Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:54:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:54:30 -0400 Received: from svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com ([24.136.46.5]:55045 "EHLO svr-ganmtc-appserv-mgmt.ncf.coxexpress.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:53:43 -0400 Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new From: Robert Love To: Daniel Berlin Cc: Xavier Bestel , Ben Collins , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 20 Oct 2002 18:59:25 -0400 Message-Id: <1035154766.17029.311.camel@phantasy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 675 Lines: 19 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. Robert Love - 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/