Re: [2.6 patch] Tigran Aivazian: remove bouncing email addresses

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Fri Dec 01 2006 - 06:00:09 EST


On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:08:39AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:00 -0800, Hua Zhong wrote:
> > I am curious, what's the point?
> >
> > These email addresses serve a "historical" purpose: they tell when the contribution was made, what the author's email addresses
> > were at that point.
>
>
> .. and which company owns the copyright.
>...

Email addresses aren't good for this kind of information.

As an example, what is stusta.de and does it have any rights on my
contributions? [1]

cu
Adrian

[1] it can't own the copyright since in Germany the copyright belongs
untransferably [2] to the author [3]
[2] except for heritage
[3] but he can give exclusive usage rights for known kinds of usage

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