Re: LinuxLand's strange copyright notices
I know for books, the copyright on the collection as a whole (including
cover art, etc) is separate from the copyright on the individual stories.
I assume this is similar.
Rob Helmer said:
> Copyright != license
>
> The individual authors generally hold the copyright on a given
> package, although sometimes they assign it to places like the FSF.
>
> I guess LinuxLand is saying they hold a copyright on the _packaging_
> like the image on the CD and in the CD case. According to
> Hans-Jörg's post, German copyright law allows them to copyright
> the package itself, I don't know what implications that has.
>
> Presumably the copyright on the software itself remains the
> original author's, so the license ( GPL/BSD/whatever ) is still
> valid for each individual binary.
>
> I am not familiar with German copyright law in particular, maybe
> someone could clarify this further.
>
>
>
> --
> Rob Helmer
>
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 07:09:43PM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote:
> > LinuxLand / Hans-Jörg Ehren <hjehren@linuxland.de> writes:
> >
> > > at its own right. That copyright only reflects to packaging, artwork
> >
> > If you can copyright the packaging of the disks, how can it be the
> > official Debian disks which is GPL'ed if I remember right?
> >
> > Just wondering.
> >
jeff
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