On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 08:24:23PM +0100, Danny van Dyk wrote: > Am Samstag, 3. M?rz 2007 19:48 schrieb Thomas R?sner: > > 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?
No, the foundation has copyright on portions of it, and they are allowed to assert that copyright. So everything is just fine. thanks, greg "i've talked to too many lawyers lately" k-h -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
