Am Samstag, 3. März 2007 19:48 schrieb Thomas Rösner: > 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? That doesn't come down to the effects for the Gentoo Foundation:
Corporation Foo uses the Gentoo-x86 tree in violation of GPL. Foundation tries to sue them, as they think they have the copyright. Corporation Foo's lawyers say: Uh, you don't even have the copyright on all of gentoo-x86. See the problem? Danny -- Danny van Dyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
