[Asterisk-Users] Re: [Asterisk-Dev] Free G.729 ready for download

[Steve Underwood]

Michael Bielicki wrote:

>find someone to host it in India or serbia and you can safely ignore it :)
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>On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:22:52 +0200 (CEST), Peter Svensson
><psvasterisk at psv.nu> wrote:
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>>On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Steve Underwood wrote:
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>>>>On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Steve Underwood wrote:
>>>>I am not a lawyer, nor even a US citizen. Talking to someone who is both
>>>>may be a good idea.
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>>>What is the relevance of being a US citizen? Copyright rules are largely
>>>global.
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>>There are two different major sets of copyright laws, depending on which
>>treaty they were derived from. They are not always compatible. They differ
>>in such points as whether you can transfer your copyright or merely assign
>>the rights granted by it.
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There are a number of variants in this area. Some countries will not 
allow someone to put things into the public domain. Perhaps I should 
have been more specific. What is copyrightable is pretty much global.

>>>>Unless otherwise granted by the copyright holder, by default the copyright
>>>>of a derived work (in the copyright legan sense) is held by the owner of
>>>>the original copyright and not the crator of the derived work. So no, the
>>>>patches are owned by Intel as well.
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>>>But the patches aren't a derived work. That is the value they have here.
>>>There are an independant adjunct work.
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>>According to most lawyers a patch _is_ a derived work in nearly all
>>circumstances. E.g. a novel based on the characters from a novel by
>>another author is a derived work.
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No. A patched copy is a derived work. A patch avoids containing enough 
of the original to count.

>>If you are producing copies of just about anything you really need to
>>speak to your lawyer to be safe. The excpetion possibly being open source
>>stuff based soley on open source stuff.
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>>Anyway, this is getting too far off topic for this list. Mea culpa.
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>>Peter
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Keeping * legal is off topic? Weird notion.

Regards,
Steve