Copyrights and GPL - perhaps IBM should hang on to copyrights in future [LWN.net]

Copyrights and GPL - perhaps IBM should hang on to copyrights in future

Posted Sep 26, 2003 20:15 UTC (Fri) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: Copyrights and GPL - perhaps IBM should hang on to copyrights in future by namaseit
Parent article: IBM Files New Claims Against SCO in Linux Case (Dow Jones)

Yes, but the text you are quoting is not talking about the situation you are talking about. It is talking about using the GPL. SCO had claimed
that Linux people were saying that the GPL forced the author to assign
copyrights. It doesn't. But of course we weren't saying the GPL did
that either.

SCO was confused about the requirements of the GPL, or at least pretended
to be confused about them.

The part of the Groklaw quote that does talk about assignments is only
saying that they don't destroy copyrights, only transfer them. That is
of course true, but not relevent to the issue of who can file lawsuits
after a copyright has been assigned to the FSF.

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