Re: Transfers of copyright versus licensing

Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com> Fri, 11 March 2005 22:25 UTC

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Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 22:02:39 +0100
From: Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com>
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Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> I've seen indications (in the context of an open source project) that
> joint copyright ownership might be legally possible.
> 
> In other words, both the contributor *and* the recipient would retain full
> rights to do whatever they wanted with the text.

Scenario: I write a spec. The IETF puts the ISOC copyright on it.
I invert a couple of bytes in my version and republish.
Interoperability, anybody?

    Brian



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