On Wed, 8 Jun 2011, Stefan Seifert wrote: > On Wednesday 08 June 2011 12:27:30 Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 12:06:48 +0300 (EEST), thorsten.i.r...@jyu.fi wrote >> in message >> >>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I can't see how willingness to exercise >>> copyright under GPL would require moving to a different license. >> >> ..you assume such "moving moving to a different license" has not taken >> place, (y)our (f)actual unwillingness to actually exercise your rights >> under copyright law to defend or enforce your copyrights, can be >> construed and asserted as "a new license" alongside the GPL. > > May I ask on which jurisdiction your claim is based? Because I know for a fact > that it does not have anything to do with German or Austrian law and am quite > sure that there is no other European country where the law works anything like > you described and the same goes for the USA. Could it be that you're mixing > copyright and trademarks? Because trademarks are the only kind of > "intellectual property" rights which you have actually have to enforce in > order to not lose them. > > There's no such need for copyright or creator's rights. For the latter, one > cannot even lose them if one wants. They are non-transferable and non- > relinquishable. > Stefan, you need to understand that Arnt loves talking out his ass about things he has no clue about. Just add him to your killfile and move on. :)
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