On 03/08/2012 18:16, Axel Dörfler wrote: > On 03.08.2012 16:43, John Scipione wrote: >> Secondly, as far as the MIT license goes, it is legal to strip off >> everything except the copyright notice and MIT license itself. > > Yes, you're right; I mixed things up here: if the copyright is > attributed to someone, you cannot just remove it (and reattribute that > copyright to Haiku Inc., for example) without consent. Actually it depends on countries, for example in France, authors' rights are divided into patrimonial ($$) rights that can be transfered, and moral rights which are inalienable and untransferable, like the right to be known for the work, the right to withdraw, and the right to respect to the oeuvre. Though it's a bit disolved for software it seems. But then if they transfered copyright to Haiku, Inc. it usually means they don't mind that much having their named mentionned or not I suppose. François.