On 2/11/2010 2:56 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
The GPL is irrelevant to co-authors because they have exclusive ownership.
No one can become a joint author on GPLed code because they have no permission to create a derivative work except under the GPL. The original author, having released the work under the GPL, has clearly indicated his intention not to form a joint work.
Tou ease your mind a bit, think of a case when a contribution to the joint work isn't a derivative work of pre-existing contributions to that joint work.
> Next think about the fact that there is nothing in the GPL saying that > derivative works can't be joined into joint works (and that would be > unenforceable anyway). It is not a joint work to begin with. There is no such thing as a contribution to the work that is not a derivative work. Someone may prepare a new collective work using a GPLed component, but that work must be licensed as a whole under the GPL in order to copy and distribute it. That author may announce his intention to create a joint work, but that cannot affect the status of the component; no one may help themselves to the work of another and become its co-author, and that component may only be distributed as part of a collective work under the terms of the GPL. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
