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On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 12:35 -0800, Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 22:26 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> > Ned Ludd wrote: |
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> > > On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 13:10 +0200, Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> > >> I have a mostly user written ebuild in which he has put his copyright to |
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> > >> the header instead of the standard one so repoman is not happy about it. |
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> > >> What is the model we should follow these days? Since developers haven't |
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> > >> been doing copyright assignment for a while there's so much of the tree |
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> > >> that isn't actually under Gentoo Foundation copyright as far as I |
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> > >> understand it so should we just allow adding individual developers to |
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> > >> the headers along the Foundation? I will be adding a question about this |
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> > >> to the quizzes when we get some decision done so that new developers get |
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> > >> educated on this (probably also need to have this documented somewhere |
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> > >> on your web pages). |
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> > > This topic came up years ago. End solution was that ebuilds that go into |
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> > > the tree need to be assigned to the foundation. Reason for this is that |
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> > > if we ever have to go to court to protect any IP the author wont have to |
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> > > go to the courts with us to co-defend that IP. |
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> > Ok so where can I point him for instructions on what papers to fill in |
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> > order to assign copyright or is just the header enough? |
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> I think the header is simply enough. |
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Header should be enough, yes. |
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> Btw when this same topic was a hot item before it was when "amir" and |
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> drobbins were around. infact that sorta was the reason drobbins wanted |
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> to collect copyright assignments from devs. |
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> But if we do go with dual copyrighted materiel. Then he could probably |
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> add it on line #4 to avoid the repoman checks etc.. |
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Regards, |
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Ferris |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) |