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Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal
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Linonut |
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Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal |
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Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:39:02 -0400 |
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* rjack peremptorily fired off this memo:
> 17 USC sec. 101 Definitions states:
>
> A "transfer of copyright ownership" is an assignment, mortgage,
> exclusive license, or any other conveyance, alienation, or
> hypothecation of a copyright or of any of the exclusive rights
> comprised in a copyright, whether or not it is limited in time or
> place of effect, but not including a nonexclusive license.
>
> See the "but not including a nonexclusive license" phrase?
>
> 17 USC sec. 201(d) is subtitled "Transfer of ownership" and thus is
> utterly inapplicable to the nonexclusive GPL.
>
> Savvy now Kemo Sabay?
No.
You may want to write a more complete opinion in legal venue.
--
It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons
of failure.
-- Bill Gates
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- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Linonut, 2008/06/13
- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, rjack, 2008/06/13
- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Linonut, 2008/06/14
- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, rjack, 2008/06/14
- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Linonut, 2008/06/14
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- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Hadron, 2008/06/15
- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Miles Bader, 2008/06/15
- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Linonut, 2008/06/15
- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Hadron, 2008/06/15
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- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Rick, 2008/06/15
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- Re: Red Hat pays $800,000 + costs for a patent deal, Miles Bader, 2008/06/15