Re: Changes to "Contribution Checklist" -- Format of the contribution.

["Gabriel F. T. Gomes" <gabriel at inconstante dot eti dot br>]

On Wed, Mar 13 2019, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Carlos O'Donell:
> 
> > I wondered this also and I spoke with DJ about this with regards to
> > US law. The best we could figure is that there has to be some country
> > where copyright assignment and authorship are two distinct items.
> > You can assign copyright, but authorship remains yours, and cannot
> > be removed. Removing a name might be seen as the equivalent of removing
> > authorship. I don't know if this is true, the ChangeLog and VCS all
> > contain authorship information for the file anyway, so I think we might
> > be able to remove "Contributed by" statements to avoid confusion.
> >
> > IANAL. I think we might need legal advice here.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> If you want to read up on this, key phrases are “moral rights” and
> “droit d'auteur”.

I am also not a lawyer, but if you are looking for one such country
where copyright assignment and authorship are distinct items, I know
that, in Brazil, these two things are treated differently, i.e.: we have
what I would translate to "moral rights" and "property rights".  One
cannot give up or transfer their "moral rights", per Chapter II,
Article 27 [1].

[1] Reference (in Brazilian Portuguese):
http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/L9610.htm

There is another law [2] that distinguishes computer programs from other
types of intellectual works, which states that "moral rights" do *not*
apply to computer programs, except for the fact that the author has the
right to claim authorship (i.e. precisely what's been discussed here),
per Chapter II, Article 2, Paragraph 1.

[2] Reference (in Brazilian Portuguese):
http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/L9609.htm

Anyhow, IANAL. :/