gpl header copyright bugfix for my old contributions ready to be?merged

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Fri Jun 13 10:08:39 CEST 2008


Hi,

On Friday 13 June 2008 09:46, Henning Glawe wrote:
> give away "urherberrecht" ("author's rights"/"intellectual property
> law"/"copyright" in germany) is AFAIK not possible. licensing the work
> under GPL should be the way to go.

urheberrecht != copyright.

Under german law you cannot give away Urheberrechte, it always stays with the 
creator. You can give away the copyright, though.

This is derived from the french Droit d'auteur, which "simply" doesnt exist in 
angelsaxonin law. 


regards,
	Holger
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