Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 06:46:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: licia@o-o.org (Licia) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Donating Copyrights? Message-ID: <199902260646.XAA21837@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902252157390.20493-100000@o-o.org> from "Licia" at Feb 25, 99 09:58:27 pm
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> Hmm, but what if that entity doesn't -want- the copyright, and does not want > their name/trademarks/etc associated with it? :) I was asking more about some > sort of review/permission process :) It's also a bit hard to make someone hold you harmless, as the author of the work, from damages resulting from its use, unless it's a condition of the license. Also, copyrights have to be held by humans, and assigned to legal entities, just like patents. The length of a copyright is 50 years following the death of the author. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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