Free software survives the original copyright holder

Free software survives the original copyright holder

Posted Sep 16, 2004 22:30 UTC (Thu) by job (subscriber, #670)
In reply to: Free software survives the original copyright holder by gdt
Parent article: Pointless ideology?

most disappointing aspect has been the shoddy treatment of the author

This is just too stupid. What do you think about all the people who have sent patches, bugreports, or just helped with answering his questions to get the driver in shape? They never assigned any copyrights. And what about the skeleton drivers he probably used to get started? He doesn't own the copyrights to that either.

No, you can't simply take your toys and leave. The Linux copyright assignment explicitly isn't one, so all authors owns a piece of the big cake, making that impossible.

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