Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-26 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:52:28PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > > They not only want to have you patches for free, they also want you to > > give your copyrights to them. ILLEGAL. > > Not nice, but in which jurisdictions do you think it is actually illegal? Tomasz appears to have issues with r

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-26 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:52:28PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > > They not only want to have you patches for free, they also want you to > > give your copyrights to them. ILLEGAL. > > Not nice, but in which jurisdictions do you think it is actually illegal? Tomasz appears to have issues with

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-26 Thread Chloe Hoffman
I would note in the U.S. (at least) however the following: § 204. Execution of transfers of copyright ownership (a)A transfer of copyright ownership, other than by operation of law, is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance, or a note or memorandum of the transfer, is in writing and signe

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-26 Thread Chloe Hoffman
I would note in the U.S. (at least) however the following: § 204. Execution of transfers of copyright ownership (a)A transfer of copyright ownership, other than by operation of law, is not valid unless an instrument of conveyance, or a note or memorandum of the transfer, is in writing and signe

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-26 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Nothing in copyright law allow you to make such claims in a license. A "license" means two things: 1. The permission from the owner of an intellectual property right for someone to do whatever the IPR protects. 2. The contract in which the o

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-26 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:52:28PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > QUOTE : > > b. All distributed modifications to the Program shall immediately ^ > > become subject to a permanent non-exclusive r

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-26 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > QUOTE : > b. All distributed modifications to the Program shall immediately > become subject to a permanent non-exclusive royalty-free right > hereby granted to TCG to include such modifications in the > Program as it may dete

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-26 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Nothing in copyright law allow you to make such claims in a license. A "license" means two things: 1. The permission from the owner of an intellectual property right for someone to do whatever the IPR protects. 2. The contract in which the

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-26 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 08:52:28PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > QUOTE : > > b. All distributed modifications to the Program shall immediately ^ > > become subject to a permanent non-exclusive

Re: Licence of SteelBlue

2000-07-26 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Tomasz Wegrzanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > QUOTE : > b. All distributed modifications to the Program shall immediately > become subject to a permanent non-exclusive royalty-free right > hereby granted to TCG to include such modifications in the > Program as it may det