On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Guillaume Yziquel <
guillaume.yziquel@citycable.ch> wrote:

> Dominick Samperi a écrit :
>
>
>> Interesting, but what about the situation where a new author adds his name
>> as copyright holder without the
>> consent of the original copyright holder, and with only one person making
>> the decision whether or not this
>> change is warranted: the new copyright holder? Doesn't this amount to
>> giving
>> the copyright away, or
>> giving it away to everybody?
>>
>
> If someone writes some code in a file, he is entitled to be the copyright
> owner of what he wrote. Kicking him away means not using his changes.

Sounds like a YES


>  GPL is often called copyleft for a reason: it basically cancels most of
>> the
>> rights that you would have with
>> an ordinary copyright so that others can freely copy your work with no
>> requirements other than that your
>>
>
> Nope. You cannot "cancel" your rights. You have them. Full stop.
>
You just give enough rights to other fellows. And restrictions when it comes
> to distributing GPL stuff. Essentially.
> You are not taking your rights away from and giving them to others. That
> doesn't make sense.

I know of no version of GPL that is consistent with these comments,
especially the last line.

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