From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 20 23:55:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from login-2.eunet.no (login-2.eunet.no [193.71.71.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66B6E1586F; Thu, 20 May 1999 23:55:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (mbendiks@login-1.eunet.no [193.71.71.238]) by login-2.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.0/GN) with ESMTP id IAA26613; Fri, 21 May 1999 08:55:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA21088; Fri, 21 May 1999 08:55:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 08:55:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Marius Bendiksen To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: Eivind Eklund , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL alternatives In-Reply-To: <19990520155519.B235@whizkidtech.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. This law is, to the best of my knowledge, based on the Berne Convention, which has been signed by many countries around the world. - marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message