On 3/16/2010 2:43 PM, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
The "unadorned" copyright doesn't not put restrictions on terms and conditions of licensing of the new copyright in a derivative work (which is exclusive rights and which belongs to the author of derivative work) "to all third parties" thereby creating a right against the world governed under state law of contract akin to the GPL.
"Doesn't not"? Anyway, you fail to understand copyright law, as usual. A derivative work contains the original work with copyright held by the original author and new work with copyright held by the deriving author, provided that the derivative work was created with permission from the original author. Since the work contains material with rights held by more than one author, it may be copied and distributed only by permission from both authors. The creator of a derivative work cannot copy and distribute without permission from the original author, by unadorned copyright law. The GPL thus grants extended permissions beyond what unadorned copyright law would permit.
In the EU terms, that's article 81:
Typical irrelevancy. Daniel Wallace already miserably failed with his antitrust and restraint of trade arguments against the GPL, and EU courts will laugh such claims out just as US courts did. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
