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I have a proposal that may keep everyone happy.... |
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I talked with our lawyer today, and here's what i suggested. |
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1. We only worry about copyrighting code that gentoo actually owns, |
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mainly catalyst, portage, the installer and things like that. |
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Also any documentation that gentoo has written along with the utilities |
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that may have been written for portage etc etc. |
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2. it would be a co-ownership basically, meaning thatif i wrote |
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documentation or parts of documentation, i would retain the rights to |
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those docs, but gentoo owns the entire thing. |
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3. only gentoo would have the ability to sue. This is more a legal |
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thing, but basically it's so that if we ever had to go into law to |
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defend the copyright, the other person can't force us to drag all of |
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our developers into court. |
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Thoughts/comments please? |
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Personally, i think that this is probably the best choice, and it should |
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make everyone happy. |
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Deedra Waters - Gentoo developer relations, accessibility and infrastructure - |
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dmwaters@g.o |
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Gentoo linux: http://www.gentoo.org |
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