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AW: Copyright [cgf, please comment]
- To: "[List] Cygwin/XFree86" <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: AW: Copyright [cgf, please comment]
- From: "Karl Philipp" <karl dot philipp at danet dot de>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 09:39:50 +0200
- Cc: "Suhaib Siddiqi" <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Disposition-Notification-To: "Karl Philipp" <karl.philipp@danet.de>
KPH> >
KPH> > > However, other
KPH> > > material posted or contributed to this project, such as
KPH> > Url, HTML pages,
KPH> > > User Guides and FAQ etc etc, authors retain Authorship, not
KPH> > the Copyright.
KPH> >
KPH> > That all depends on what the author chose to do with the
KPH> > copyright when they
KPH> > wrote the works in question. Posting a work on a RedHat
KPH> > owned web server
KPH> > does not constitute a transfer of copyright, as copyright
KPH> > transfer is a
KPH> > legal mechanism that requires formal paperwork.
KPH>
KPH>
KPH> Red Hat has the right to remove it. That is what I had been told.
This statement remembers me at the discussion about Microsoft's point of
view regarding the "share sources".
greetings
Karl