[License-discuss] Can copyrights be abandoned to the public domain?

Lawrence Rosen lrosen at rosenlaw.com
Fri Aug 17 00:45:49 UTC 2012


Russ, have you ever experienced that inferiority in actual open source software? 

/Larry (from my tablet and brief) 

Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:

>Oleksandr Gavenko writes:
> >       Moral Rights:
>
>Only some countries claim Moral Rights. And as you point out, this is
>very problemmatic for Open Source Software. We have traditionally held
>that a license is a license is a license, but it's clear that OSI
>Approved Open Source contributions from people who live in countries
>that claim Moral Rights is inferior to people who live in countries
>which don't.
>
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