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

[Michael Bielicki]

find someone to host it in India or serbia and you can safely ignore it :)


On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 10:22:52 +0200 (CEST), Peter Svensson
<psvasterisk at psv.nu> wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Sep 2004, Steve Underwood wrote:
> 
> > >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.
> > >
> > >
> > What is the relevance of being a US citizen? Copyright rules are largely
> > global.
> 
> 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.
> 
> > >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.
> > >
> > >
> > But the patches aren't a derived work. That is the value they have here.
> > There are an independant adjunct work.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Anyway, this is getting too far off topic for this list. Mea culpa.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> 
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Michael Bielicki