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Deedra Waters wrote: [Tue Jul 12 2005, 04:58:56PM CDT] |
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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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That should make life much simpler. |
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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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Seems reasonable. |
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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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Although I think it's reasonable in principle, I would feel better if I |
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had a better idea of what exactly is involved. Who would need to sign |
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some sort of co-ownership document? Since we're still dealing with |
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copyright, does this method solve the problems with under-age or non-US |
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citizens who cannot turn over copyright? |
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-g2boojum- |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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