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Date:      Fri, 21 May 1999 08:55:28 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Marius Bendiksen <mbendiks@eunet.no>
To:        "G. Adam Stanislav" <adam@whizkidtech.net>
Cc:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: GPL alternatives
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905210851560.20978-100000@login-1.eunet.no>
In-Reply-To: <19990520155519.B235@whizkidtech.net>

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> The copyright law does give the author the right to give up all his rights.
> Many an author has to ask his publisher for the permission to have his own
> work published somewhere else.

Norwegian copyright law does not permit you to do this, therefore any
licence which specifically resigns all rights is void in Norway, I
would suspect. This law is, to the best of my knowledge, based on the
Berne Convention, which has been signed by many countries around the
world.

- marius



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