Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright assignment and ownership (again)

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:18:27 +0100 Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>
wrote:
| Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > How about we recognise that individual ebuilds aren't worth anything
| > and that the tree *as a whole* should be copyrighted as a single
| > work?
| > 
| > # This file is part of the Gentoo Portage tree, which is Copyright
| > (c) # 1999-2005 Gentoo Foundation, and distributed under the terms
| > of the # GNU GPL v2.
| 
| Sounds good to me, but what about the patches in ${FILESDIR}?

They don't count. Ebuilds and eclasses do.

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