Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | 21 Oct 2002 09:51:51 +0200 |
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Le lun 21/10/2002 à 00:51, Brad Hards a écrit : > -----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.
But in the copyright assignment request, the FSF states:
" However, upon thirty days` prior written notice, the Foundation agrees to grant me non-exclusive rights to use the program as I see fit; (and the Foundation shall also own similar non-exclusive rights)."
Doesn't this mean that the author still has copyrights on his work, provided he tells the FSF within one month ?
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