GPL compliance

Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings.co.za
Sun Jul 2 19:12:09 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 11:38 -0700, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> writes:
> 
> 
> >  he/she does not have to claim copyright to have copyright.
> 
> That should be "she/he/it" (don't say it too fast) or "she/he/them" in
> the Queen's English, I suppose, because the author can be a
> corporation with the worker-bees probably having no rights, even
> moral/artistic ones.

:-)

Legal chicaneries aside, how a non-living incorporated entity can ever
manage to author something is completely beyond me. This must be a
definition of "author" that I am heretofore unfamiliar with.

alan





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