From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 22:40:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B2816A4CE; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 22:40:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C336A43D55; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 22:40:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0A6eCET008139; Fri, 9 Jan 2004 23:40:12 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2004 23:40:04 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20040109.234004.70461791.imp@bsdimp.com> To: rsidd@online.fr From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20040109223410.GA19314@online.fr> References: <20040109224028.P32387-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> <20040109223410.GA19314@online.fr> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: underway@comcast.net cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Copyrights X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 06:40:17 -0000 In message: <20040109223410.GA19314@online.fr> Rahul Siddharthan 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