Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > In at least US law, and I'm fairly certain EU law as well, unless you > have explicitly signed a legal contract to transfer your copyright > interest to some other party, you still hold the copyright on every > creative work that you've made, including any patches that you've > written that qualify as creative works. Whether or not you added a > copyright, whether or not the modified files are marked as such, and > even if someone else slapped their copyright notice on it.
I should have said here: modulo work for hire. (That can be seen as just a particularly common form of legal contract, but at least in the US it's phrased differently: the copyright isn't transferred, but rather is always held by the employer in a work-for-hire scenario.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87hamoliqe....@windlord.stanford.edu
