Copyright != license The individual authors generally hold the copyright on a given package, although sometimes they assign it to places like the FSF.
I guess LinuxLand is saying they hold a copyright on the _packaging_ like the image on the CD and in the CD case. According to Hans-Jörg's post, German copyright law allows them to copyright the package itself, I don't know what implications that has. Presumably the copyright on the software itself remains the original author's, so the license ( GPL/BSD/whatever ) is still valid for each individual binary. I am not familiar with German copyright law in particular, maybe someone could clarify this further. -- Rob Helmer On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 07:09:43PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: > LinuxLand / Hans-Jörg Ehren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > at its own right. That copyright only reflects to packaging, artwork > > If you can copyright the packaging of the disks, how can it be the > official Debian disks which is GPL'ed if I remember right? > > Just wondering. > > /Peter > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ----- End forwarded message -----
