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From: "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Toon Knapen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "license" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Friday March 02 2001 08:40 pm, Toon Knapen wrote:
> I'm sorry if my question were off topic.
> I only asked these question as to get some
> more information such that I'm able to
> choose a license (and legal stuff)
> that best fits my open-source developments.
This is indeed the appropriate
d, this ml is exactly
targeted at discussing open-source licenses.
I'm sorry if I was wrong.
toon
>
> >From: Toon Knapen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: license <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: license <-> copyright
> >Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 15:18:0
Toon Knapen wrote:
> unless, I assume, one gives the copyright to the
> other person from the moment the 'work' is created.
> Since in this case the copyright is never owned by
> the person who created the 'work'(is that
> legal/possible), there is never a
> transfer and thus no administration
Toon Knapen wrote:
> John Cowan wrote:
> > Toon Knapen wrote:
> > > For instance : is it best that
> > > all developers in an open-source project transfer
> > > their copyright to the project manager ?
> >
> > That is a matter of opinion. Only the copyright holder
> > can sue for infringement, s
> From: Toon Knapen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Do you mean that, if you release your work under
> the GPL license that the FSF becomes automatically
> the copyright owner ?
>
[DJW:] Gnu is not the same as GPLed. Gnu
is things like GCC, not things like the Linux
kernel.
As I already mention
John Cowan wrote:
>
> Toon Knapen wrote:
>
> > As I understand it, the copyright holder can
> > define the a license on his work which stipulates
> > what you can do with his work without breaking
> > the copyright.
>
> Just so.
>
> > Next I also wanted to ask if a copyright is
> > transferabl
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-Original Message-
From: Toon Knapen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 9:18 AM
To: license
Subject: license <-> copyright
I'm new to this ml, so maybe the questi
> From: John Cowan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> Yes. In the U.S. (and in practice everywhere), such a
> transfer must be in writing and signed by the
> developer.
>
[DJW:] The Free Software Foundations
assignment form, quoted recently,
appears to be in the form of a co
Toon Knapen wrote:
> As I understand it, the copyright holder can
> define the a license on his work which stipulates
> what you can do with his work without breaking
> the copyright.
Just so.
> Next I also wanted to ask if a copyright is
> transferable.
Yes. In the U.S. (and in practice e
I'm new to this ml, so maybe the question
is alreay answered (but I found no archive)
So, can someone point me to a website or explain
the relation between a sofware license and
a copyright.
As I understand it, the copyright holder can
define the a license on his work which stipulates
what you c
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