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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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Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> |
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Gentoo Linux |