Re: Transfer of copyright on death

2003-07-20 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes. If its a joint work, either author can grant a non-exclusive > licence, without the other's permission. So the living author can do > that without asking the estate/heirs of the dead author. This depends of the country. Here in Finland the auth

Re: Transfer of copyright on death

2003-07-20 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Andrew Stribblehill wrote: The sole maintainer collaborated with another author in writing the program, and they have joint copyright. He would like to get it relicenced under a standard licence but the other author has now died. Is there any way to get it changed? Yes. If its a joint work, ei

Joint Authors and "Nonexclusive" Licenses Re: Transfer of copyright on death

2003-07-19 Thread James Miller
## DISCLAIMER. The following is not legal advice, but a general recitation of the law. Seek counsel of an attorney in your jurisdiction for legal advice. --- Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> からのメッセー ジ: > Andrew Stribblehill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > writes: > > The sole maintainer collaborated wit

Re: Transfer of copyright on death

2003-07-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If it turns out that the dead author made no provision for copyrights > in his will and asked his property to be shared out among several > people, or given to a charity, then finding and contacting the heir(s) > might be very difficult. There al

Re: Transfer of copyright on death

2003-07-15 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Andrew Stribblehill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The sole maintainer collaborated with another author in writing the > program, and they have joint copyright. He would like to get it > relicenced under a standard licence but the other author has now > died. Is there any way to get it changed? I would g

Re: Transfer of copyright on death

2003-07-15 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Andrew Stribblehill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The sole maintainer collaborated with another author in writing the > program, and they have joint copyright. He would like to get it > relicenced under a standard licence but the other author has now > died. Is there any way to get it changed? The

Re: Transfer of copyright on death

2003-07-15 Thread Florian Weimer
Andrew Stribblehill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FYI, the current licence is below: > > 9menu is free software, and is Copyright (c) 1994 by David Hogan and > Arnold Robbins. Permission is granted to all sentient beings to use > this software, to make copies of it, and to distribute those c

Transfer of copyright on death

2003-07-15 Thread Andrew Stribblehill
[Please Cc: me on this thread; I'm not on the list] Hi. I've recently taken over the 9menu package. Looking over the copyright file, it wasn't clear whether it passed DFSG 4. The upstream maintainer has confirmed that in his reading of the copyright, patched binaries may be distributed. The sole