Re: [Nano-devel] ruby syntax highlighting patterns

[Jordi Mallach]

On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 03:40:17PM -0700, John M. Gabriele wrote:
> Jupp got back to me (promptly!) and says:
> 
> "I am the copyright holder and to my knowledge the german legal system
> - in contrast to the anglo-saxon one - does not allow me to change
> this. I can only allow others to use my work."
> 
> If that's the case, how do *any* germans contribute to GNU software?

Jupp is correct. What the FSF asks for is for copyright disclaimers, or
for copyright assignments. The works are still copyrighted by Jupp, but
it is assigned to the FSF.

In Jupps case, disclaiming the copyright would be best, as it's a small
snippet.

http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/html_node/Copyright-Papers.html

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