Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: copyright attribution clarifications

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

On 11/15/18 2:38 PM, Thomas Deutschmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don't like playing the "work" card. I guess most of us are somehow
> employed -- saying we need this *change* or we would risk to discourage
> companies from allowing their employees to contribute to Gentoo on work
> time must feel like a slap in the face:
>
> Nobody had a problem with that before.
>
> There's just *one* contributor at the moment, SIE, who wants to change
> things ("taking the opportunity to revise previous permission to enforce
> something new").
>
> I disagree saying that this is general problem and we are discourage
> companies from contributing to Gentoo due to that.
>
> I agree with Rich saying
>
>> IMO people who are only willing to contribute FOSS if their name gets
>> put in a prominent location might do better to contribute elsewhere.
>
> ...and even if you are unemployed or just contributing in your free time
> your contribution has a value -- the same value like contributing during
> work time! So if we start allowing copyright attribution we would have
> to do that for *everyone*. Something I don't really want:
>
> Ebuilds aren't like normal program code. Ebuilds are changing very
> often. It will become a nightmare to track copyright to be able to
> remove a line when this contributed code is no longer present and
> therefore copyright attribution is no longer necessary nor correct.
>
> It is also a question on its own if you can ever claim copyright for
> things like ~1-10 lines of bash code (I guess we will never know because
> nobody will ever go to court for 1-10 lines of bash code)...
>
>

+1

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