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Thomas Dehn
Last I checked, IBM was a US company, so what happens under German law is really not that relevant, no?
I find that hard to believe. How would software companies ever have copyright on anything? It would all belong to their hired programmers. Clearly it is possible in some situations, so I don't see why it should be impossible to do with the GPL.
That's rich; Americans apply their laws to foreigners in other countries all the time, so why shouldn't the reverse apply? There could very well be a difference between a "work made...
Put bluntly, I don't believe you. At least not until you actually link to the relevant laws. Besides, these rules would be incompatible with the GPL, so using it in the first place would not be allowed. Of course the author may always change the license for the software he owns, but what was once released as GPL software will remain as GPL software.
Oh, and a little case history to support my views:
Note the line that says "The German court was able to justify this by reference to German copyright law under which a license can be granted to everybody free of charge." But wait, didn't you just say that the author couldn't grant a license in this way? I call bullpoo.
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We compensate for that by having more laws, and by having laws which conflict with eachother ;-). OK, we do not yet have US style tort...
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