Copyrights

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20040109223410.GA19314 at online.fr>
            Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd at online.fr> writes:
: As for the "copyright (C) the FreeBSD project" bit: As I understand,
: editors/publishers who compile anthologies can claim copyright on the
: anthologies (the act of anthologisation itself being a creative
: process) even if the individual articles in the anthology are
: copyright by their respective authors.

This is exactly correct.  There's no 'overriding' or 'stealing' other
people's copyright going on.  This copyright assertion is on the
software that's collected, as a whole, just like a collection of short
stories have copyrights be the individual owners as well as the folks
that published the book.  Go to a bookstore and look at a collection
of short stories by different authors and you'll usually discover that
there are many copyrights listed: one by the publisher, and one for
each of the stories by the author of the story.

This is indeed different than the GPL where copyright is typically
assigned to a third party for purposes of enforcement (usually the
FSF).

Warner