On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 20:39 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:35:34 -0800
> Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> wrote:
> > I think the header is simply enough. 
> > Btw when this same topic was a hot item before it was when "amir" and
> > drobbins were around. infact that sorta was the reason drobbins wanted
> > to collect copyright assignments from devs. 
> 
> The last time this came up, the lawyer in question also said that people
> had to sign a huge contract (complete with their real name, and we all
> know how well that tends go down amongst certain people...) agreeing to
> turn over any computer they used to work on Gentoo on demand.  Given
> that that clearly isn't the case, and given that people have succeeded
> in court actions involving Linux (copyright six zillion people),


>  would
> it not be wise to consider getting advice from another source?

Perhaps yes. But I don't think we should spend foundation money just to
revisit this old topic. Have the guy put the standard copyright in the
header, and we get on with life cuz it's highly doubtful if our IP ever
even got misused that we would do anything about it.


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