Re: Problem with GNAT modified GPL and SourceForge

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

[ I am not a lawyer, not a native English speaker, so the
  comment below may have to be taken with a grain of salt. ]

David Starner wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 12:07:28 +0000 (UTC), Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote:

> > Perhaps one should add that, if this applies, it applies to
> > works when the laws of the US of America apply.
> 
> Huh? Why? If code has been placed in the public domain in the US, it's
> probably been placed in the public domain everywhere. There's not much
> code that's in the public domain because of obscure US legal reasons.

EU copyright law has what is effectively a ban on "public
domain".  The creator of a work will always have copyright
to it (in the sense "the right to have his/her name on the
work and people not changing it without asking him/her") and
this right can not be sold or in any other way given away. 
But laws and similar works are not covered by copyright.

Jacob
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