From owner-freebsd-chat Sat May 22 4:16:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pop04.iname.net (pop04.iname.net [165.251.8.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03C9214C96 for ; Sat, 22 May 1999 04:16:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zen@buddhist.com) Received: from WhizKid (r5.bfm.org [208.18.213.101]) by pop04.iname.net (8.9.0/8.8.0) with SMTP id HAA18978; Sat, 22 May 1999 07:16:16 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19990522055009.00978430@mail.bfm.org> X-Sender: stanislav@mail.bfm.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 05:50:09 -0500 To: Marius Bendiksen From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: GPL alternatives Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <19990520155519.B235@whizkidtech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:55 21-05-1999 +0200, Marius Bendiksen wrote: >> The copyright law does give the author the right to give up all his rights. >> Many an author has to ask his publisher for the permission to have his own >> work published somewhere else. > >Norwegian copyright law does not permit you to do this, therefore any >licence which specifically resigns all rights is void in Norway, I >would suspect. Interesting. Would be nice if that were the case in the US. But here, anything is for sale, including author's rights, and traditionally publishers have tried to get as many of them as they can get from authors. And since there are many more authors than publishers, authors (especially new ones) are generally afraid to say no out of fear that the publisher will call off the whole deal. This law is, to the best of my knowledge, based on the >Berne Convention, which has been signed by many countries around the >world. The US has signed it, too. So, the convention probably did not ban such practice. It is the law of your country that does. Adam --- Want to design your own web counter? Get GCL 2.20 from http://www.whizkidtech.net/gcl/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message