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On 21 Oct 2002, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Le dim 20/10/2002 à 23:51, Robert Love a écrit : > > 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. 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. I wonder if this means the FSF can't accept contributions from these countries, or if they've found some weasel-words around the legislation of those countries... Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Current spamtrap: <a href=mailto:"october@surriel.com">october@surriel.com</a> - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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