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Re:Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-li... by laughinghan on Saturday October 31, 2020 @04:24PM (#24954900)
Copyright ownership is not a matter of your opinion. It is settled law, mutually recognized by the 179 countries (out of the 195 in the world) who have signed the Berne Convention [1]. Copyright ownership is established as soon as a work is "fixed in a tangible medium of expresssion" [2]—in other words, as soon as the contributor wrote it on their laptop. The "author" entry in the package.json file is irrelevant.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention

[2]: https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2017/10/03/with-copyright-wh...

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Re:Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-li... by user5994461 on Saturday October 31, 2020 @04:53PM (#24955112)
1) There's definitely not 179 countries recognizing US copyright.

2) The Berne convention is a farce, it doesn't define what's supposed to be enforced or how. It's up to each European country to do their own thing.

You really can't say that copyright is anything settled or mutually recognized across the world. It's quite a mess and it's really complicated.

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Re:Octotree – Proprietary Firefox extension contains AGPL-li... by gspr on Saturday October 31, 2020 @05:02PM (#24955175)
Nothing you wrote is a meaningful retort to the comment you replied to. Opinion at best.
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