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Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> While I think this would be an excellent move, there are a few topics |
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> that concern me a bit: |
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> 1) just to be sure, did someone check the transfer agreement between the |
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> Foundation and the old Gentoo, Inc for potential problems? |
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> 2) what would this mean for our copyright situation? In detail: |
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> a) who would (legally) own the copyright? |
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> b) what would (in theory) be involved if we'd want to enforce/change |
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> the license? |
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> c) if the copyright were owned by the Conservancy, would we have to |
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> change our copyright headers (in existing and/or new files)? |
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It might be worth noting that it appears that Gentoo would be the first |
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distribution to join. I'd be interested in knowing if the SFC considers |
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distributing closed-source or proprietary software (nero, ati/nvidia |
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drivers, vmware) to be "producing non-free software (as per the |
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Conservancy's charitable purpose)" as mentioned in section 2(b) of their |
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notes. Paragraph 2(a) seems to prohibit it. |
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> a. The Project Will Be Free Software. The Conservancy and the Project agree that |
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> any software distributed by the Project will be distributed solely as Free Software. |
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If that's not a problem I think this is a great idea. |
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