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On Sunday 10 October 2004 22:36, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> On Sunday 10 October 2004 9:37 am, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > I feel that it is our best interest if developer made patches are |
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> > assigned to gentoo, but we could also do it by simple copyright |
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> > assignment (e.g. putting a header on the patch which says Copyright |
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> > Gentoo Foundation 200x) |
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> Doing this would prevent such patches from being submitted upstream to |
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> projects with just as absurd a policy (copyright assigned to only |
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> them). This kind of policy really prevents open source from being any |
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> better than proprietary software-- if both projects require exclusive |
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> ownership of the code, then either one or the other can use it, not |
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> both. |
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What I meant is that developers (helped by a written statement) assign |
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developer written/made patches to gentoo. Such patches would so contain a |
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copyright statement. If the patches are from someone else there would be |
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no statement and it is clear that the copyright is not with gentoo. The |
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copyright statement would then make clear where the copyright lies. If |
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developers want to defent their own copyright on a patch they will not |
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put a "copyright Gentoo Foundation" header in the file but e.g. a |
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"Copyright Paul de Vrieze" header. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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