discuss: [Debian removes free documentation / technical aspects]
Subject:
Re: [discuss] [Debian removes free documentation / technical aspects]
From:
David Lawyer ####@####.####
Date:
16 Apr 2006 18:04:25 -0000
Message-Id: <20060416180149.GB1740@lafn.org>
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 08:27:14AM -0400, Randy Kramer wrote:
> On Sunday 16 April 2006 01:07 am, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> > A licence cannot grant rights not allowed by copyright law.
>
> I'm almost certain it can. The one exception in some countries
> other than the US might be the authors "moral" right of authorship
> (is that how that's phrased), which, iiuc, in those countries cannot
> be transferred from the author under any circumstances.
If I recall correctly, I thought that "moral" rights were effective
in the U.S. also, but are not spelled out in statue law. This would
mean that even if you use public domain material, you must give the
author credit. I've noticed that large chunks of one of my HOWTO's
have been put on the Internet without acknowledgement that I wrote it.
This is a violation of my "moral" rights but I'm too busy to do
anything about it. I wonder how often this happens to other HOWTOs.
Often the author never knows about it. You have to search on a phrase
from your document, picking one that no one else would be likely to
use.
David Lawyer
