From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 18 19:29: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hiwaay.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18BF137B424 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 19:29:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt6-216-180-4-172.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.4.172]) by mail.hiwaay.net (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e7J2SvW05235; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 21:28:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA54789; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 21:28:01 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200008190228.VAA54789@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Thomas M. Sommers" Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: Sun's web site In-Reply-To: Message from "Thomas M. Sommers" of "Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:54:34 EDT." <399CB37A.CF1A19BA@mail.ptd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 21:28:01 -0500 From: David Kelly Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Thomas M. Sommers" writes: > David Kelly wrote: > > Notice under GPL you do not give up the copyright on the software. You > > still own it and control it. Presumably even the mods others (anonymous > > contributors who don't go to lengths to claim their own copyright on the > > revisions) put into it. What I'm saying is the copyright holder is still > > free at a later date to jump back in with a non-GPL version including > > developments during its GPL phase. YMMV, depends on how good your > > lawyers and public relations people are. > > Only if you hold the copyrights to the contributed code. Under current > copyright law, you automatically have a copyright on your creations, > even if you don't put a notice on them. Lacking any other governing conditions you have some but not unlimited rights to copyright. GPL is a pre-exsiting condition. The originator's copyright is a pre-existing condition. Anonymous changes will not have a copyright and will bear the copyright of the original document as that document was distributed with one and only one copyright notice. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message