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Re: GPL misappropriation
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David Kastrup |
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Re: GPL misappropriation |
Date: |
Tue, 04 May 2010 16:10:23 -0000 |
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Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
> [...]
>> > http://www.lehrer-online.de/dyn/bin/366209-369076-1-uebertragung_von_nutzungsrechten.pdf
>> >
>> > "Inhabern ausschließlicher Nutzungsrechte vorbehalten
>> >
>> > Die Einräumung von Unternutzungsrechten ist allerdings dem Inhaber
>> > eines ausschließlichen Nutzungsrechtes vorbehalten (§ 31 Abs. 3 UrhG);
>> > einfache Nutzungsrechte berechtigen demgegenüber nicht zur Einräumung
>> > von Unternutzungsrechten."
>>
>> So where is the problem? It says that giving somebody "right to use" is
>
> Under the German copyright act ONLY EXCLUSIVE LICENSEES CAN
> SUBLICENSE.
Wrong. You still don't get it. Exclusive licensees _automatically_
receive the right to sublicense. A non-exclusive licensee does not
_per_ _se_ have the right to sublicense. But if the license terms
_grant_ him sublicensing possibilities, he can certainly make use of
him.
You can license people to exercise almost any right you have, except for
_personal_ rights, those bound to the originator. Like the claim of
authorship.
> For example, the MIT License
>
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
>
> "the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute,
> sublicense,"
>
> is VOID regarding sublicensing under the German law.
_Exactly_ because non-exclusive licensees do not get the right to
sublicense automatically, these terms are granting something which the
licensee otherwise could not do.
You are getting it backwards.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: GPL misappropriation, (continued)
- Re: GPL misappropriation, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/05/04
- Re: GPL misappropriation, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04
- Re: GPL misappropriation, RJack, 2010/05/04
- Re: GPL misappropriation, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/05/04
- Re: GPL misappropriation, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04
- Re: GPL misappropriation, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/05/04
- Re: GPL misappropriation, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04
- Re: GPL misappropriation, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/05/04
- Re: GPL misappropriation, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04
- Re: GPL misappropriation, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/05/04
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David Kastrup <=
- Re: GPL misappropriation, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/05/04
- Re: GPL misappropriation, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04
- Re: GPL misappropriation, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/05/04
- Re: GPL misappropriation, RJack, 2010/05/04
- Re: GPL misappropriation, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/05/04
- Re: GPL misappropriation, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04
- Re: GPL misappropriation, Alexander Terekhov, 2010/05/04
- Re: GPL misappropriation, David Kastrup, 2010/05/04
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