Re: Standardizing the layout of git packaging repositories
On Wed, 20 Aug 2014, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> There still seems to be some legal contention around Apache License
> 2.0 expecting an authors list for a project. And I agree copyright
Not just that one, there are other licences with weird
terms like that.
> significant enough to amend the years/holders there (also in many
> cases the authors are not the copyright holders, but rather their
> employers are, so the authors list can be essentially irrelevant
> where copyright is concerned).
Depends. In German law, the individuals are still the copyright
owners, but their employers have the exclusive right to exercise
the exploitation rights, iff written under employment contract.
So this is highly legislation-dependent (and: whose legislation?
Author? Employer? Project lead? Distributor? Maintainer? etc.)…
bye,
//mirabilos
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