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From: Kumba <kumba@g.o>
To: gentoo-trustees@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-trustees] copyright stuff
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 02:29:43
Message-Id: 42C0B6ED.6010808@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-trustees] copyright stuff by Donnie Berkholz
1 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
2 >
3 > How about this: By default, everybody signs off to one of the above.
4 > Strong objectioners have the option of signing a nonexclusive license
5 > instead.
6
7 Call me the anarchist of the pack, but what are other organizations doing, like
8 *BSD, debian, or even other open-sourced projects as far as copyrights go? Why
9 not just keep it simple and adopt the mechanism used by the upstream linux
10 kernel team (which based on gregkh's description, seems to fit us the best, imho).
11
12 As it currently stands, it seems every idea proposed so far has a flaw or
13 flaw(s) that prohibits, limits, excludes, or annoys one or more of our devs.
14 Surely this situtation, or a variant, has been tackled before, so I'm sure
15 somewhere out there, there is something workable for us (possibly with minor
16 modifications).
17
18
19 --Kumba
20
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22 Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead
23 Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees
24
25 "Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands
26 do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond
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Re: [gentoo-trustees] copyright stuff Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>