AW: Copyright [cgf, please comment]

Karl Philipp karl.philipp@danet.de
Fri Jun 1 00:32:00 GMT 2001


KPH> > 
KPH> > > However, other
KPH> > > material posted or contributed to this project, such as 
KPH> > Url, HTML pages,
KPH> > > User Guides and FAQ etc etc, authors retain Authorship, not 
KPH> > the Copyright.
KPH> > 
KPH> > That all depends on what the author chose to do with the 
KPH> > copyright when they
KPH> > wrote the works in question.  Posting a work on a RedHat 
KPH> > owned web server
KPH> > does not constitute a transfer of copyright, as copyright 
KPH> > transfer is a
KPH> > legal mechanism that requires formal paperwork.
KPH> 
KPH> 
KPH> Red Hat has the right to remove it.  That is what I had been told.

This statement remembers me at the discussion about Microsoft's point of
view regarding the "share sources".

greetings

 Karl



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