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On Wed, 28 May 2008 20:57:50 +0100 |
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Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote: |
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> The Gentoo Foundation has very little intellectual property and its |
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> growing slowly if at all. Some history is probably in order. |
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> Gentoo under Daniel Robbins was quite different that it is today. |
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> Developers were asked to sign over copyright in their contributions |
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> to Gentoo Technologies Inc, which was a company set up by Daniel. |
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To clarify this: only devs that joined during a specific time period |
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(IIRC 2004-2005) had to sign that agreement. It was created so we had a |
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legal copyright transfer to back the copyright headers in |
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ebuilds/sourcecode created by Gentoo devs, and was removed because it |
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was considered to be too wide in scope (potentially covering personal |
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hardware used for Gentoo development). The removal was not directly |
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related to Daniel leaving or the change from Gentoo Technologies Inc to |
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the foundation. |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |