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["Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Philipp Thomas <Philipp.Thomas2@xxxxxxx>
> Received: 8/5/09 10:31 PM
> On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:00:25 +0200, you wrote:
>
> > And I thought OSS (mainly the GPL) was based on copyleft rather than 
> > copyright.
>
> At least in german law you *never* loose your copyright. You can
> transfer the right of commercial exploitation but unlike anglo-saxton
> law you can't sell the copyright itself.
>
> Only the GPL is based on copyleft, there are lots of other OSS
> licenses that retain the copyright. See the BSD license for a
> prominent example.

But GPL is exactly what cdrtools was licensed under at the time it was forked. 
That's the whole point of it.
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