Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new

Daniel Berlin
2002-10-20T23:00:52Z

On 20 Oct 2002, Robert Love wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 18:52, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
> > On Sunday, October 20, 2002, at 05:51 PM, Robert Love wrote:
> >
> > > It is called copyright _assignment_ for a reason. How the hell are two
> > > people supposed to simultaneously own a copyright on the same work?
> > >
> > Joint authorship.
>
> The FSF Copyright Assignment is not joint authorship, it is copyright
> assignment. They alone possess the work's copyright.
Of course.
But you asked "How the hell are two people supposed to simultaneously own
a copyright on the same work?"
The answer is "Joint authorship".