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Buying the kernel

Buying the kernel

Posted Oct 14, 2004 22:16 UTC (Thu) by rickmoen (subscriber, #6943)
In reply to: Buying the kernel by gravious
Parent article: Buying the kernel

gravious wrote:

Out of interest would it be possible to do either of the following two things?

a) Place a statement somewhere in the kernel source stating that if a copyright holder for a piece of code is not found or is unknown the copyright reverts to Linus or the OSDL or some body like that.

Per copyright law (in the USA and all similar jurisdictions), ownership transfers of copyright title must be in writing, executed by the owner seeking to reassign ownership. So, no.

Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com


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