On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:08:39AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:00 -0800, Hua Zhong wrote:
> > I am curious, what's the point?
> >
> > These email addresses serve a "historical" purpose: they tell when the
> > contribution was made, what the author's email addresses
> > were at that point.
>
>
> .. and which company owns the copyright.
>...
Email addresses aren't good for this kind of information.
As an example, what is stusta.de and does it have any rights on my
contributions? [1]
cu
Adrian
[1] it can't own the copyright since in Germany the copyright belongs
untransferably [2] to the author [3]
[2] except for heritage
[3] but he can give exclusive usage rights for known kinds of usage
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"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
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