Re: [opensuse-factory] Why don't we change to cdrtools ?
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From: Philipp Thomas <Philipp.Thomas2@gmx.net> 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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
"Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@TMF-Group.com> wrote:
But GPL is exactly what cdrtools was licensed under at the time it was forked. That's the whole point of it.
If you like to use the GPL in a legal way, you first need to understand it. I recommend you to read this: http://www.rosenlaw.com/Rosen_Ch06.pdf first. The GPL is just a contract and it therefore cannor break a law. So inform yourfelf ybout the related law first: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/index.html Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
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