Re: Are Microsoft’s patent lawyers really this dumb?

[David Kastrup]

Kurt Häusler <usenet@haeusler.NO.co.SPAM.nz> writes:

> On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:55:07 +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> Kurt Häusler <usenet@haeusler.NO.co.SPAM.nz> writes:
>
>>> Now I wrote most of the code, and placed the copyright under
>>> ownership of the FSF.
>> 
>> How so?
>
> By leaving their name in the text of the gpl license file rather
> than say overwriting it with either my name or my employer's
> name. Which is standard practice right?

Sigh.  That makes the license remain copyrighted by the FSF, but does
not affect your software.  Without an explicit transfer of copyright
(and a legal step such as transfer of ownership requires _two_
consenting parties and can't be done unilaterally by writing some
stuff into a file), the copyright remains with the author.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum