Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 07:07:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 07:07:24 -0400 Received: from twilight.ucw.cz ([195.39.74.230]:48099 "EHLO twilight.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 07:07:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:12:47 +0200 From: Vojtech Pavlik To: Rik van Riel Cc: Rob Landley , Xavier Bestel , Robert Love , Ben Collins , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new Message-ID: <20021022131247.F21346@ucw.cz> References: <200210201926.19757.landley@trommello.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:33:54PM -0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1240 Lines: 30 On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:33:54PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sun, 20 Oct 2002, Rob Landley wrote: > > On Sunday 20 October 2002 17:53, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > Germany (and France, judging from your words) have laws that > > > guarantee that the creator of a work keeps copyright on the > > > work. At least, part of the copyright cannot be signed over > > > to other people or organisations. > > > 3) The creator of a work doesn't always get the copyright, at least in > > the US. > > Please see above. It's possible the FSF copyright assignment > just can't be legal in some countries. Even the GNU GPL isn't legally valid in some countries. Czech Republic, where I'm from is an example - for a license agreement like this, both parties (the author and the user) have to be at least notified, and if they are not, the agreement is invalid. This is a quite understandable law, but doesn't work with the GPL unless you always contact all the authors. -- 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/