From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,706866ab9089906d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-21 07:15:03 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!news.algonet.se!algonet!newsfeed1.uni2.dk!news.net.uni-c.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GCC 3.0 released Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 16:14:55 +0200 Organization: Centre for Chaos and Turbulence Studies, Niels Bohr Institute Message-ID: <3B32015F.6ECCEFA0@nbi.dk> References: <2BpX6.13114$pb1.478251@www.newsranger.com> <86ithtpvmp.fsf@acm.org> <871yohih9w.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <_pOX6.1713$yp1.49933@www.newsranger.com> <874rtcum4d.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87k8262821.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: alf.nbi.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.net.uni-c.dk 993132902 38326 130.225.212.55 (21 Jun 2001 14:15:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.net.uni-c.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:15:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; OSF1 V4.0 alpha) X-Accept-Language: fo,da,no,sv,is,de,fr,en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8968 Date: 2001-06-21T16:14:55+02:00 List-Id: 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 -- "Filer er r�!"