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

[Henning Glawe]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 10:08:39AM +0200, Holger Levsen 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.

yes, this is why i wrote explicitely "urheberrecht" and the terms in brackets
in order to illustrate the term to people not familiar with the german law.


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

you can give somebody the right to redistribute your work under certain terms
(license).


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

exactly.


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henning