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Re: GNUstep CoreData


From: Gregory Casamento
Subject: Re: GNUstep CoreData
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2013 03:54:55 -0400

I believe the problem might be due to this:

http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ38a.pdf

Iran currently has no formal copyright relations with the US or, more broadly, with WIPO.  While I'm no fan of WIPO this does make it difficult, from a legal standpoint, to interpret the status or effect of any assignment or disclaimer from any country which doesn't have such relations.

Please understand that I, personally, would welcome your contributions but we are bound by the limitations of the FSF since GNUstep is a GNU project.

I'm still awaiting an official reply from Donald, but the above is my guess as to the reason why he said what he did.

Greg

On Friday, September 6, 2013, Luboš Doležel wrote:

In multiple European countries, copyright is absolutely non-transferrable (except for employment contracts and after the death of the owner). FSF very likely doesn't know about this. I'm mot gonna mention those countries, because it'd strip up some madeness, even GPL wasn't a legally valid license in different EU countries up until recently. Nobody ever cared.

I'd assume that this rejection is somehow based on the U.S. trade embargo.

Lubos


Dne 6. září 2013 6:11:35 Gregory Casamento napsal:

Discrimination isn't legal here in the US either.   I believe that the reason might be a question of copyright transfer not being entirely clear in some countries, but that's only conjecture on my part at this point. 

I have sent a request for clarification to Donald to see what his reasoning is.  If needed I'll elevate the issue higher.

Greg

On Thursday, September 5, 2013, Fred Kiefer wrote:
Maybe it would be possible to assign the copyright to the FSF Europe? I don't think such discrimination is legal over here. In that case we could think about bringing the whole GNUstep project over to Europe.

Fred

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Am 05.09.2013 um 20:48 schrieb Gregory Casamento <address@hidden>:

> Donald is the copyright clerk at the FSF so it's safe to assume he knows what he's talking about.   Honestly, this is one of the ways that the copyright assignment holds us back.   I'm sure Muhammad is not the only person who is in this situation.
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