From: wmperry@gnu.org (William M. Perry)
Cc: 24th Century Technology <ding@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: Copyright/license issues (was: [COMMIT] sign & encrypt changes)
Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 10:31:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <861ycp8f8y.fsf@asgard.bp.aventail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sdpu091i74.fsf@wanderer.hardakers.net> (Wes Hardaker's message of "Mon, 06 May 2002 07:09:35 -0700")
Wes Hardaker <wes@hardakers.net> writes:
>>>>>> On Mon, 06 May 2002 13:31:16 +0100, Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net> said:
>
> Sean> However, I believe the primary reason that the FSF requires copyright
> Sean> to be assigned to it is that it has received legal advice that any
> Sean> actions it might take against copyright violations would be much
> Sean> weakened if it did not hold copyright on all the code in question.
>
> I'd be willing to bet they have a large number of illegally assigned
> copyrights (say where a person says he's working on his own outside of
> work but who was actually doing so during work time, on work computers
> and it's probably quite provable that he was).
This is why the FSF also requires a disclaimer from your employer in most
cases. My employer signs a 5-year blanket disclaimer at a time for me.
-bp
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-06 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-05-01 22:22 [COMMIT] sign & encrypt changes Josh Huber
2002-05-02 6:46 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-02 13:13 ` Josh Huber
2002-05-02 14:14 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-02 15:02 ` Josh Huber
2002-05-02 16:06 ` Dmitry Bely
2002-05-02 16:16 ` Josh Huber
2002-05-02 17:44 ` Dmitry Bely
2002-05-02 17:57 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-02 16:49 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-02 17:11 ` Dmitry Bely
2002-05-02 17:19 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-02 17:37 ` Copyright/license issues (was: [COMMIT] sign & encrypt changes) Dmitry Bely
2002-05-02 17:48 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-02 18:04 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2002-05-03 13:57 ` Dmitry Bely
2002-05-03 14:10 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-03 14:45 ` Dmitry Bely
2002-05-03 15:20 ` Paul Jarc
2002-05-03 17:46 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-04 14:15 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-05-04 14:37 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-06 8:20 ` Dmitry Bely
2002-05-06 8:37 ` Matthieu Moy
2002-05-06 11:44 ` Dmitry Bely
2002-05-06 12:27 ` Matthieu Moy
2002-05-06 11:53 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-05-06 12:31 ` Sean Neakums
2002-05-06 14:09 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-05-06 15:31 ` William M. Perry [this message]
2002-05-06 15:43 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-05-06 21:22 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-07 13:50 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-05-06 13:07 ` Dmitry Bely
2002-05-06 13:25 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-06 13:48 ` Dmitry Bely
2002-05-06 14:09 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-06 21:31 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-07 13:56 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-05-07 14:54 ` Simon Josefsson
2002-05-07 17:16 ` Dmitry Bely
2002-05-07 18:21 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-05-08 8:46 ` Dmitry Bely
2002-05-08 19:06 ` Russ Allbery
2002-05-13 13:40 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-05-08 2:37 ` Russ Allbery
2002-05-06 18:56 ` Russ Allbery
2002-05-06 18:55 ` Russ Allbery
2002-05-06 19:50 ` Amos Gouaux
2002-05-06 20:06 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-05-06 20:25 ` Russ Allbery
2002-05-06 21:14 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-05-06 21:20 ` Russ Allbery
2002-05-06 21:37 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-07 3:24 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-05-07 10:57 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-06 21:18 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-03 19:18 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-03 22:44 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-05-04 8:57 ` Florian Weimer
2002-05-04 14:27 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-05-06 14:05 ` Wes Hardaker
2002-05-07 13:39 ` Per Abrahamsen
2002-05-08 15:29 ` Copyright/license issues Werner Koch
2002-05-03 19:21 ` [COMMIT] sign & encrypt changes Florian Weimer
2002-05-06 15:25 ` Josh Huber
2002-05-08 15:32 ` Werner Koch
2002-05-08 16:26 ` Josh Huber
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