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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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Regards, |
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Petteri |