Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 21:28:01 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: Sun's web site Message-ID: <200008190228.VAA54789@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> of "Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:54:34 EDT." <399CB37A.CF1A19BA@mail.ptd.net>
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"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
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