Re: [GSWHackers] Re: OGo/GNUstep cooperation Re: Re[2]: Frameworks integration

[Fred Kiefer]

Helge Hess wrote:
> On 03.03.2004, at 12:18, David Wetzel wrote:
>
> > I can sale or give away copyright to anybody I like.
> > Or do you think some companies pay money to get a copyrights from 
> > other people (like freelancers, or other companies) if that is not 
> > possible?
>
>
> Get informed about current law basics for IT. You cannot. You can only 
> license code to others (on whatever conditions).

I really think, that this tone does not help in the current discussion. 
As far as I know, nobody on the GNUstep mailing lists is a copyright 
lawyer and even these would only know about the laws in their specific 
countries. I also have only faint, farback memories on an article about 
the differences in German and American Copyright concepts. Still I am 
rather sure, that things aren't as simple as you state them in this 
mail. In the skyrix source code I find:
"Copyright (C) 2000-2003 SKYRIX Software AG"
This is in a file that was clearly changed by yourself. So you do accept 
the concept of copyright transfer. Each of us has, for our day time 
jobs. So if this is possible, why would it be a fundamentally different 
problem to assign the copyright to the FSF?

You also did not answer to the mail Gregory send on FLA (Or at least I 
still did not get an answer from you, currently my GNUstep mailing lists 
are five days behind.) Sorry Helge, but all of this gives me the 
feeling, that you want to distract the discussion. I don't understand 
why you are doing this, but it surely doesn't help in getting people 
together to work on a common solution. As Manual stated, free software 
projects are more than anything else build on trust relationships, lets 
try to build up some more.

Fred