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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:41:11
Message-Id: 200703062138.25906.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some council topics for March meeting by Simon Stelling
1 On Saturday 03 March 2007, Simon Stelling wrote:
2 > Daniel Robbins wrote:
3 > > 1) Any material created by Gentoo developers, as part of an official
4 > > Gentoo Project, needs to have copyright assigned to the Gentoo
5 > > Foundation, whether or not it is currently included in the Portage
6 > > tree. This protects all of our collective contributions against
7 > > misuse, which is why it is policy.
8 >
9 > Except that in many European countries you can't even "re-assign" your
10 > copyright. Oops.
11
12 Only the moral copyright. You can reassign everything else. Or irrevocably
13 license it or similar. It is not actually an issue at all.
14
15 Paul
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18 Paul de Vrieze
19 Gentoo Developer
20 Mail: pauldv@g.o
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