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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: koffice/kspread
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-10-18 15:08:56
Message-ID: 200510181708.58477.zander () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 18 October 2005 14:28, Lukáš Tinkl wrote:
> Dne Mon. 17. October 2005 10:30 Thomas Zander napsal(a):
> > You can't give copyright to an mailinglist, it has to be a legal
> > entity, so please give the copyright to yourself of you kind of loose
> > all rights. Oh, and only specify the relevant year, it surprises me
> > that 2005 is not listed.
>
> According to what laws; is Robert Dutch? :) I'm pointing this out just
> because Czech IP laws permit this kind of copyright assignment...

Nowhere in the world can you assign copyright to a mailing list or any 
other non-legal entity (in all wipo countries at least).  You need an 
actual person or company or so for that.
Also not in Czech.

But, that should be obvious; how can you claim ownership of something not 
to you, but to a group of people that is only defined by a 
mailinglist-address.  Afterwards you can't say to someone "He you can't 
steal that, thats mine!"  Since technically, its not any persons 
property.

I'll forward this issue to the maintainer and let him claim ownership 
since Robert obvou
-- 
Thomas Zander

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