Re: Bitkeeper outrage, old and new

Vojtech Pavlik
2002-10-22T11:01:16Z

On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 12:20:07AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:

> Le dim 20/10/2002 ŕ 23:51, Robert Love a écrit :
> > On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 17:42, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> >
> > > You're plain wrong.
> > >
> > > You both have the copyright on your work.
> >
> > It is called copyright _assignment_ for a reason. How the hell are two
> > people supposed to simultaneously own a copyright on the same work?
> >
> > The assignment says (I quote) "I hereby transfer... my entire right,
> > title, and interest (including all rights under copyright)... in my
> > program".
>
> Last time I looked, it wasn't possible to relinquish copyright on your
> own work, no matter what you sign. Maybe it's not like that in all
> countries, after all.

It's not possible in Europe (most of it), but easily possible in the US.

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs