[Kdeev-books] First cut - scripting chapter, dcop chapter and structure

[Jan Schumacher]

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On Sunday 31 August 2003 15:43, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> I know this is sometimes difficult to understand that this is an ongoing
> effort and that you certainly don't want to grant anyone rights that are
> exclusively your own rights primarily to prevent misusage of them. However,
> I think the goal of the kdeev-books project is to work with the e.V. to
> establish developer documentation that are available to anyone at any time
> with having the e.V. taking care of the things like copyright/license
> violations and publication - other documentation can of course be provided
> or linked to if authors aren't fine with the requirements for this books
> project. I mean, anyone is free to do what he/she wants in his/her free
> time anyway and as much as I recognize people being more willing to
> contribute to a project type like KDE where your single parts are still
> under your copyright but on the other hand I think in particular the
> documentation that is suitable to be provided as an add-on by the KDE e.V.
> is one resource that should fall under the KDE e.V.'s responsibility with
> the authors still having their copyright and all their rights, so you're
> not loosing anything. You just grant the KDE e.V. the right to publish your
> work, just like the KDE project publishes your sourcecode in conjunction
> with the rest of the KDE distribution of any KDE version.

What does the KDE e.V. need any additional rights for beyond the rights 
granted by a suitably free license? The source code for example is already 
being published without any copyright reassignment. Note that this wouldn't 
be possible at any rate in Germany (AFAIK IANAL) because the legal concept of 
"copyright" is different: you can only grant particular rights of use if you 
are the creator or a work -- it will always stay yours legally. This grant of 
usage, however, is the same as that you would get from the GPL of the source. 
Unless, of course, you are talking about an exclusive right. Copyright 
reassignment makes one imortant difference: the new owner of the work can re- 
or duallicense it like Trolltech does with QT. But why would KDE e.V. want to 
do that?

Regards
Jan
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