[Foundation-l] re GFDL publisher credit
Ray Saintonge
saintonge at telus.net
Sat Jul 15 15:55:03 UTC 2006
Anthony wrote:
>On 7/14/06, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
>
>
>>" ...Wikimedia doesn't transfer the ownership of anything, and there is no
>>rental, lease, or lending. But then again, by that definition
>>*nothing* distributed over the Internet is published, and I doubt a
>>court would agree with that...."
>>
>>Because of the way the GFDL works, ownership is transferred to every person
>>that receives it.
>>
>>
>Ownership of what? The ownership of copyright doesn't get
>transferred. Copies of the work don't get transferred. What gets
>transferred? Bits?
>
I agree with you on this. GFDL is a licence, not a transfer of ownership.
Ec
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