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From: | Andreas Röhler |
Subject: | Re: Copyright/Distribution questions (Emacs/Orgmode) |
Date: | Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:39:31 +0100 |
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Am 11.03.2013 13:53, schrieb Stephen J. Turnbull:
Andreas Röhler writes: > Anyway, stressing the need of copyright assignment might spread the > illusion, a free software project might require that procedure in > order to distribute code. What the case at stake seems to > demonstrate so far. Please, Andreas, you are completely off-base.
[ ... ] Hi Stephen, let's mention a point not touched so far. Copyright makes sense with poems or story-telling maybe. A story lives by themselves. What does a line of code? It depends on thousands and millions other lines written by other people or even by machine. The founder-father of org-mode has already pointed at the multiple authorship of the file in question. Now what? Do we have several copyright-assignments aiming at the same file? We will have that, as all or many files have more than one author. With some exceptions it's impossible to maintain such a thing like authorship WRT to files. Cheers, Andreas
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