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On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:19:44PM -0700, Deedra Waters wrote: |
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> So, what do the rest of you want?We need to come up with a decision of |
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> what we want first before we can even get down to deciding in how we |
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> want to do the copyright doc, if we want one. |
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> So, do you guys want one or not? Do you want gentoo's software to be |
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> protected or not? |
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Don't dare to go away from the original intend to get copyright transfers. |
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There are only positive sides attached to it afaik, you just need to be able |
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to sensiblize (sp?) the developers for it. |
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A copyright transfer is a contract. If the Gentoo Foundation requires all |
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developers to sign a contract stating that every work they contribute to |
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the Gentoo Project is owned by Gentoo Foundation as long as the Gentoo |
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Foundation does not wave from the GPL license version 2 or higher for |
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software or the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike version 2 or |
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higher for the work, then that's a valid contract (okay, there are some |
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smaller items that need to be listed in the contract for it to be valid in |
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Belgium, but it's really not difficult), then developers should not worry |
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about Gentoo Foundation walking away with their code. |
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Perhaps the developer wants to share the copyright of the Work with the |
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Gentoo Foundation in such an extend that the Gentoo Foundation can |
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individually act on the Work as long as the Gentoo Foundation does not wave |
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from the beforementioned licenses that's possible as well and fits our needs |
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(we just want to be able to protect Gentoo). I believe we should keep that |
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option open as well. |
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Deedra, has this been mentioned during the previous conference call? Sharing |
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ownership on works but on which each side can individually act (without the |
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permission of the other side) and where the Gentoo ownership stays as long |
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as we do not wave from the GPL/CC-BY-SA? |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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