On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:08:39AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > give away "urherberrecht" ("author's rights"/"intellectual property > > law"/"copyright" in germany) is AFAIK not possible. licensing the work > > under GPL should be the way to go. > > urheberrecht != copyright.
yes, this is why i wrote explicitely "urheberrecht" and the terms in brackets in order to illustrate the term to people not familiar with the german law. > Under german law you cannot give away Urheberrechte, it always stays with the > creator. You can give away the copyright, though. you can give somebody the right to redistribute your work under certain terms (license). > This is derived from the french Droit d'auteur, which "simply" doesnt exist > in > angelsaxonin law. exactly. -- c u henning