Gentoo Archives: gentoo-trustees

From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o>
To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-trustees] copyright stuff
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:43:59
Message-Id: 20050713104341.GA10485@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-trustees] copyright stuff by Deedra Waters
1 On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 02:58:56PM -0700, Deedra Waters wrote:
2 > 2. it would be a co-ownership basically, meaning thatif i wrote
3 > documentation or parts of documentation, i would retain the rights to
4 > those docs, but gentoo owns the entire thing.
5 >
6 > 3. only gentoo would have the ability to sue. This is more a legal
7 > thing, but basically it's so that if we ever had to go into law to
8 > defend the copyright, the other person can't force us to drag all of
9 > our developers into court.
10
11 This would be perfect, sort-of an exclusive license.
12
13 Wkr,
14 Sven Vermeulen
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