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Re: copyright and incorporating code from mailing list posts
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John Hasler |
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Re: copyright and incorporating code from mailing list posts |
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Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:05:53 -0500 |
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jmg3000 writes:
> Actually, where a large number of folks all have their own copyrights for
> a given project, I don't see how that could work. It's not like you could
> conceivably round them all up and get them to show up in court if they
> actually had to legally defend their collective licensing terms...
There is no need to round them all up. Each has a copyright in the work
and can prosecute infringement independently of all the others. Thus IBM
is prosecuting its claims that SCO is infringing its copyrights in the
Linux kernel without involving Linus et al.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
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