On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 09:59, Dominic Fandrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't we implicitly grant the ioq3 project the rights to the code > by submitting it to you? > > I mean we don't put our own copyrights to our patches, so I'd assume > we're automatically granting the copyright to whoever already has > it. Otherwise you'd have to add a copyright notice for every single > small patch somewhere.
Copyright law in the USA and most European countries doesn't work that way. The copyright of a patch remains with the author, notice or no notice, unless it's explicitly signed away or the patch is a work-for-hire. _______________________________________________ ioquake3 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ioquake.org/listinfo.cgi/ioquake3-ioquake.org By sending this message I agree to love ioquake3 and libsdl.
