In multiple European countries, copyright is absolutely
non-transferrable (except for employment contracts and after the death of
the owner). FSF very likely doesn't know about this. I'm mot gonna
mention those countries, because it'd strip up some madeness, even GPL
wasn't a legally valid license in different EU countries up until
recently. Nobody ever cared.
I'd assume that this rejection is somehow based on the U.S. trade
embargo.
Lubos
Dne 6. září 2013 6:11:35 Gregory Casamento
napsal:
Discrimination isn't legal here in the US either. I believe that the
reason might be a question of copyright transfer not being entirely clear
in some countries, but that's only conjecture on my part at this
point.
I have sent a request for clarification to Donald to see
what his reasoning is. If needed I'll elevate the issue
higher.
Greg On Thursday,
September 5, 2013, Fred Kiefer wrote:
Maybe
it would be possible to assign the copyright to the FSF Europe? I don't
think such discrimination is legal over here. In that case we could think
about bringing the whole GNUstep project over to Europe.
Fred
On the road
Am 05.09.2013 um 20:48 schrieb Gregory Casamento <address@hidden>:
> Donald is the copyright clerk at the FSF so it's safe to assume he
knows what he's talking about. Honestly, this is one of the ways that
the copyright assignment holds us back. I'm sure Muhammad is not the
only person who is in this situation.
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