Re: GCC 3.0 released

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

Florian:

[ IANAL ]

> From a certain point of view, our request is as silly as yours.  Quite
> a few Germans have signed copyright assignments in the past, and now
> somebody claims that German law explicitly forbids copyright
> assignment!

Assuming that German copyright law is compatible with EU copyright
rules, this is likely to be partially true. When Europeans are
talking about copyright, they are generally talking about two
somewhat different concepts:

 * The author's right to have his name on his work (and to decide
   how it may be changed).
 * The author's right to economic compensation for copying of his
   work.

The former of the two can, as far as I understand EU copyright
rules never be transferred.

Jacob
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