Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:54:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:54:39 -0400 Received: from mta01ps.bigpond.com ([144.135.25.133]:46063 "EHLO mta01ps.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 20 Oct 2002 18:54:11 -0400 From: Brad Hards To: Daniel Berlin , Xavier Bestel Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 08:51:46 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.5 Cc: Robert Love , Ben Collins , Jeff Garzik , Richard Stallman , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200210210851.46773.bhards@bigpond.net.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1803 Lines: 45 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 08:47, Daniel Berlin wrote: > 2+ people having copyrights on something only occurs when you have > joint authorship (or rare partial transfers). > In this case, what we have is the a transfer of copyright from you, to > the FSF ("my entire right, title, and interest (including all rights > under copyright))" > It's like transferring rights to real property (in most countries, you > can view copyright as an object of property in trying to determine what > you can do with it) > When rights are transferred to another party, the original author > doesn't get any residual rights unless these are expressly reserved as > a "grant back". > You are no longer the owner of the copy right. Which is the whole point of the FSF copyright assignment. They don't want you to relicense it under some other terms. Under the GPL it doesn't matter who owns the copyright, so the only point of the copyright assignment is to reduce _your_ rights. I understand why the FSF want to do this (imagine a major free-software producer in financial trouble, and a big product (eg GCC and binutils) that they could sell to a closed-source vendor). I just don't plan to do this myself. Brad - -- http://linux.conf.au. 22-25Jan2003. Perth, Aust. I'm registered. Are you? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9szOCW6pHgIdAuOMRAkRsAKCjuMSaCbzWKYJYfNbGL0wj60co4ACdENXK xDDNeReSGOAOpT02TbtB7B0= =BI1d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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/