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Re: odd lisp/ChangeLog entry
From: |
Stephen J. Turnbull |
Subject: |
Re: odd lisp/ChangeLog entry |
Date: |
Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:09:19 +0900 |
Glenn Morris writes:
> Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
>
> > Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > You seem to be having an identity crisis:
> >
> > It's just a way to acknowledge that the change was developed by 2
> > persons. Look in the GCC logs, there are a lot of entries like this.
>
> Huh. I've just never seen a log entry like this; and am slightly
> surprised they are considered OK from a legal point of view.
It's just a work of joint authorship, which is well-defined in
copyright law (at least in the U.S., I forget what Berne and other
regional jurisdictions have to say about it). The only tricky part
about it is that in the absence of any contract to the contrary, all
joint authors have equal and full copyright AIUI. This causes
problems when you want to give an exclusive license. But this doesn't
matter given the FSF's legal strategy, since they will insist on an
assignment from all copyright holders in any case.
And, of course, there's the wonderful fact that the whole point is a
non-exclusive license. :-)