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On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 05:35:22PM +0100, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera (klondike) wrote: |
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> El 18/11/12 04:39, Greg KH escribió: |
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> > Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the "Copyright" branch |
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> > that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal |
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> > under all countries that follow the "normal" body of Copyright Law. It |
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> > should be removed right now before someone gets into trouble, not the |
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> > least of which would be the orginization that the copyright is now being |
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> > attributed to. |
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> So I made a mistake coming out from a missunderstanding on a commit on a |
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> branch that didn't even get merged since I was expecting approval from |
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> somebody else before that. Cool. The amount of damage caused by this |
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> action is around the same as publishing a patch and not applying it. |
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Not really, having it in the repo worried a lot of people, as it was not |
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an acceptable thing to do. |
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> > Come on people, this is basic copyright law, it's not something |
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> > radically new. It's something that _all_ software developers should |
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> > know, either from school, or any company they have ever worked at. |
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> Check european copyright laws please, they are quite different from |
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> yours. I at least have had to read and understand the spanish copyright |
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> laws a few times and its not funny. So please don't speak of a "normal" |
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> body of copyright law there is not such thing and some of us have enough |
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> with the "normalizations" USA based lobbies are trying to impose on ours. |
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I know all about European copyright laws, and if you do, I am supprised |
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that you changed the files in this manner, as you really can't give up |
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your copyright in Europe like you can in the USA. So by adding the |
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Foundation's copyright here, a USA-based company, it is quite strange. |
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Anyway, the commit is gone, which is good, thank you for deleting the |
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branch. Please be more careful about doing such things in the future. |
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We really don't want to get the Foundation in trouble by doing this type |
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of thing. |
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thanks, |
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greg k-h |
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