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On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 05:08:13PM -0700, Daniel Campbell wrote: |
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> Forgive me, but I don't see why people have so much trouble with |
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> copyright wrt Gentoo. I've simply assumed anything I wrote for Gentoo |
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> would be attributed to me via git log information and/or metadata.xml |
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> and should I leave Gentoo, Gentoo keeps the rights to it since I'm |
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> contributing to it. Nothing stops me from pushing ebuilds to my personal |
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> overlay *and* the primary Gentoo tree. |
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Note, lots of people (i.e. almost anyone who is employed in the US), are |
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in the situation where the copyright ownership of your contributions are |
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not owned by yourself, so you can not give the copyright away to the |
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Gentoo Foundation without an explicit legal document from that owner |
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granting that copyright transfer (or additional ownership.) |
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So this is a real issue, and a problem, for many of our developers |
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(myself included), which is why many many years ago some of us worked to |
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get that copyright ownership document removed. |
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> With a DCO, it greatly complicates things. Would my right to keep my |
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> contributions in an overlay be infringed upon? What would change if we |
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> switch to this? |
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Nothing, it just explicitly calls out that you know the contribution you |
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are making is allowed and under the license of the file/project you are |
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contributing to. It does not change the ownership of the copyright of |
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the contribution at all. It's a very simple document, I think I've |
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written more words in this email than the whole document has, I suggest |
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reading it for all of the details. |
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thanks, |
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greg k-h |
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