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Re: Justice draws nigh

From: Hyman Rosen
Subject: Re: Justice draws nigh
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:55:11 -0000
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On 5/12/2010 4:03 PM, RJack wrote:

The GPL license is a nonexclusive license and cannot
effect ownership of *any* copyrights.


Well, of course. Ownership of copyright is determined by
copyright law. The GPL is an expression on the part of
the copyright owners on what others may do with the works.
Some of those permissions serve to allow others to become
copyright owners, because they are allowed to create
derivative works.
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