Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 23:40:04 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: rsidd@online.fr Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copyrights Message-ID: <20040109.234004.70461791.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20040109223410.GA19314@online.fr> References: <20040109224028.P32387-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> <20040109223410.GA19314@online.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> writes:
: As for the "copyright (C) the FreeBSD project" bit: As I understand,
: editors/publishers who compile anthologies can claim copyright on the
: anthologies (the act of anthologisation itself being a creative
: process) even if the individual articles in the anthology are
: copyright by their respective authors.
This is exactly correct. There's no 'overriding' or 'stealing' other
people's copyright going on. This copyright assertion is on the
software that's collected, as a whole, just like a collection of short
stories have copyrights be the individual owners as well as the folks
that published the book. Go to a bookstore and look at a collection
of short stories by different authors and you'll usually discover that
there are many copyrights listed: one by the publisher, and one for
each of the stories by the author of the story.
This is indeed different than the GPL where copyright is typically
assigned to a third party for purposes of enforcement (usually the
FSF).
Warner
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