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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 19:04:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org>
To: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
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Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new
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On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Ben Collins wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 06:52:58PM -0400, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Think of this, if you pay $1,000,000 to the OpenGroup, you can purchase
> the source to DCE/DFS and do whatever the hell you want with it.
This is a license, not a transfer of copyright.
--Dan

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