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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>,
	tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 11:59:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061201105955.GO11084@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1164964119.3233.56.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

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

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-12-01 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-01  5:51 [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses Adrian Bunk
2006-12-01  6:00 ` Hua Zhong
2006-12-01  6:19   ` Adrian Bunk
2006-12-01  6:38     ` Hua Zhong
2006-12-01  9:08   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-01  9:21     ` Tigran Aivazian
2006-12-01  9:26       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-12-01 10:59     ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-12-02 21:08       ` Tigran Aivazian
2006-12-02 21:32         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-12-02 21:42           ` Alan
2006-12-02 22:07             ` grundig
2006-12-02 22:02           ` Tigran Aivazian
2006-12-01 20:33     ` Stephen Pollei
2006-12-01 21:40   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-12-02 21:33     ` Tigran Aivazian

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