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On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 09:56, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Thursday 01 July 2004 15:40, Corey Shields wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 01 July 2004 08:37 am, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> > > Regardless of whether or not it's enforceable, I think enough devs |
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> > > have expressed concern about the things it purports to enforce. |
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> > > |
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> > > IMO, we should heed those concerns, stop requiring new devs to sign |
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> > > the doc and figure out a way to get a better doc in place. |
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> > |
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> > There is really no reason to continue signing copyright over to Gentoo |
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> > Technologies, so until this all changes to the new Foundation, I have |
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> > to agree with putting these on hold, with the agreement that they will |
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> > be signing one later. |
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> |
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> Appart from the fact that enough people (including trustees (myself |
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> included)) have not actually signed the statement, the statement is |
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> indeed broken so I agree on postponing it. Also we might not need the |
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> whole copyright. The only thing we want to be able to do is to fight |
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> battles in court without having to make many many party in the battle. |
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> |
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> Paul |
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Agreed. |
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Like I said on -core, I am willing to talk to the FSF/EFF and see if we |
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can get some pro-bono legal advice. Are there any objections to me doing |
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this immediately? |
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Cheers, |
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John Davis |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen> |
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