Hi, Danny van Dyk schrieb:
2) There are countries who acutally adhere to the Berne Convention (1886). This means even the deed of commiting sources with a "Copyright (C) XXXX Gentoo Foundation" is useless in most countries of the EU. E.g, *none* of the stuff that I ever commited to Gentoo's repositories is copyrighted (solely) by the Gentoo Foundation, due to me being German citizen and writing that stuff in Germany. FYI, there isn't even something like Copyright in Germany. We have an "Author's right" which agree with the Berne Convention and deviates from copyright in several points.
Except that you "giving away copyright" or "donating to public domain" is understood by (german) courts to give away usage rights, which is exactly what is intended, no?
Regards, Thomas -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
