-Till Jaeger writes: - > Hello, - > - > you can find some information in our article in English (IIC, -vol.32 1/2001; - > http://www.tilljaeger.de/art10.pdf, page 13 - 15; but very huge -file!) or in - > German: GRUR Int. 1999, 839; -http://www.ifross.de/ifross_html/art1.html). - > - - Thanks for the pointers. - - Page 13 says: - -"Since according to the copyright concept of the Free Software -Foundation it is precisely the gain in reputation that represents -the reward for the programmer, the latter will react all the more -sensitively to damage to his reputation" - - The Free Software movement (and the Free Software Foundation -in particular) does not deny that gain in reputation may be part of -the incentive of someone publishing Free Software. However, the -Free Software movement and the Free Software Foundation said in many -occasions that viewing this as the primary incentive is incorrect.

Gain in reputation is surely not the only or the most important motivation but most programmers I spoke to think this is an important point.

- - People are altruistics, people do things for moral reasons. -People pushing Free Software for education do it so that their -children live in a better world. I know some people thought they -discovered why people write Free Software when they realized that it -may bring them some fame. These people have difficulties thinking that -individuals often do things for purely altruistic reasons. - - Because of that, I think it is incorrect to assume that -Free Software developers are motivated by gain in reputation. - - I have an additional question you may be able to answer. Is -there an example of a software author who successfuly enforced his -moral rights ? That may help us understand the situation better.

I don't know any example. Because of credit lists and so on there is mostly no violation of moral rights.