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WikipediaWikipediaPosted Jan 12, 2006 9:58 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524)In reply to: Wikipedia by bk Parent article: The coming Debian GFDL collision In the case where a copyrigthed work is created by several authors, each one gets the copyrigth, assuming his contributions are significant enough to warrant copyrigth in the first place. It's not a question of finding *the* one "authoritative" copyrigth-holder, there isn't one. It's the same with the Linux Kernel. Even if it was true that Linus has contributed the most to the kernel (I don't know if that *is* true, nor how to measure "most" in this context) that *still* wouldn't make him "the authoritative copyright holder". Copyrigth-law simply doesn't work like that.
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Agreed, but Posted Jan 12, 2006 18:05 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link] There are actually multiple things under copyright: the individual pieces of code, plus the compilation and arragement of them. Linus might be said to own the compilation copyright of the kernels he releases, if the kernels meet the requirements for a compilation copyright (IANAL so I don't know if they do).
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