Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Oct 2002 13:12:47 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new |
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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.
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