[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Copyright notice

[Gerhard Killesreiter <killes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Arien Malec wrote:

> The FSF requires assignment of copywright by contributors (which is a bit
> onerous, but legally clean), and it may or may not be a good idea to assign
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Not everywhere in the world. Actually this is impossible by German
law. Once you have created something you are the copyright holder. You can
let others use it, but you remain the copyright holder.

OTOH IANAL.

Cheers,
        Gerhard