Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 07:01:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 07:01:16 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([195.39.74.230]:28899 "EHLO twilight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 07:01:15 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:06:48 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Xavier Bestel Cc: Robert Love , Ben Collins , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new Message-ID: <20021022130648.E21346@ucw.cz> References: <20021019161201.A26017@work.bitmover.com> <3DB1EAAB.30401@pobox.com> <20021020154609.GD696@phunnypharm.org> <3DB2E661.8070802@pobox.com> <20021020173438.GK696@phunnypharm.org> <1035141319.16887.293.camel@phantasy> <1035150122.967.5.camel@bip> <1035150671.16888.300.camel@phantasy> <1035152407.967.11.camel@bip> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1035152407.967.11.camel@bip>; from xavier.bestel@free.fr on Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:20:07AM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1090 Lines: 30 On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:20:07AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le dim 20/10/2002 ? 23:51, Robert Love a ?crit : > > 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? > > > > The assignment says (I quote) "I hereby transfer... my entire right, > > title, and interest (including all rights under copyright)... in my > > program". > > Last time I looked, it wasn't possible to relinquish copyright on your > own work, no matter what you sign. Maybe it's not like that in all > countries, after all. It's not possible in Europe (most of it), but easily possible in the US. -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs - 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/