Erik Trimble <[email protected]> wrote: > > I cannot speak for Apache and Mozilla or OpenJDK, but the FSF uses a > > contract template that is in conflict with the European Copyright law > > and causes the contract to become void. > > > > Jörg > > That's interesting. Nice to know. Does the legal concept of > "severability" apply there? (meaning, if one clause is found invalid, it > only invalidates that clause, not the entire contract...)
The problem here is that the offocial translation for "Urheberrecht" is Copyright law and the law forbids you to assign "Urheberrecht". You may however give away the rights to copy. If there is no salvatoric clause in the contract, it becomes completely void. The funny side aspect of international law is that a US court may ignore the fact that a European citizen cannot assign Copyright for a US local case. > I know the Contributor Agreement for the OpenJDK project is a hideous > mess of legalese (and, you have to FAX it back to Oracle, signed, since > electronic acknowledgment won't satisfy the lawyers). I'm assuming > that the army of lawyers that got paid to cook up the CA did a > reasonable job checking for compatibility with most region's legal > systems, but I'm sure there's somewhere out there that might have a > problem with some clause. The OpenSolaris agreement explicitlely uses a wording that is compatible with the European legal system. Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
