(C) yyyy Joerg Schilling (was: Re: your mail) (fwd)

[Florian Weimer]

<kim2 at bruning.demon.nl> writes:

> You see the (c)? That's *your* legal protection against people stealing
> your code. The GPL only grants people extra rights, which they wouldn't
> have if only the (c) was there.

I don't think that in German law, you have to claim copyright in order
to have it.  Quite the contrary---you can't get rid of it even if you
want to.

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