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Moral rightsMoral rightsPosted Aug 13, 2009 9:59 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (guest, #5474)In reply to: Moral rights by liw Parent article: The unending story of cdrtools
I know for a fact you can't transfer or give up moral rights in France. One project I'm involved with (based in France) took legal advice about this issue, and it means the project can only take very minor patches from outside contributors into the base package. The reason is that some outside contributor could later claim their moral rights over parts of the project, if, for example, we pissed them off or had to substantially change their contribution later. There is no disclaimer or FSF-style assignment we could do that would change this situation.
[However note IANAL, and IANA European (C) Lawyer either]
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Moral rights Posted Aug 13, 2009 19:37 UTC (Thu) by johill (subscriber, #25196) [Link]
However, on the issue of moral rights, I don't quite buy this argument since the moral rights are intangible in every sense but being mentioned as the/an author -- the important rights are the right to use, distribute, copy, etc. ("Verwertungsrechte" in German), and those are easily transferable, transfered, etc. I suppose that's what the other comment about licensing under GPL alluded to.
Moral rights Posted Aug 13, 2009 21:17 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
So, er, how do you become a non-outside contributor? Join the right INRIA
research group? It seems to me that unless there's a way to become 'not outside', they've eliminated any possibility of getting new development blood into the project, which cannot be good :/
(yes, this is a guess as to which project you're talking about, but I bet
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