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On Wed, 28 May 2008 20:57:50 +0100
Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote:
> The Gentoo Foundation has very little intellectual property and its
> growing slowly if at all. Some history is probably in order.
> Gentoo under Daniel Robbins was quite different that it is today.
> Developers were asked to sign over copyright in their contributions
> to Gentoo Technologies Inc, which was a company set up by Daniel.
To clarify this: only devs that joined during a specific time period
(IIRC 2004-2005) had to sign that agreement. It was created so we had a
legal copyright transfer to back the copyright headers in
ebuilds/sourcecode created by Gentoo devs, and was removed because it
was considered to be too wide in scope (potentially covering personal
hardware used for Gentoo development). The removal was not directly
related to Daniel leaving or the change from Gentoo Technologies Inc to
the foundation.
Marius
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