Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright issues (Was: udev-ng?)

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:21:20PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote:
> On 11/18/2012 11:22 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 11:05:05PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote:
> >> On 11/18/2012 09:58 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > <an on-topic discussion about copyright thread response from me snipped>
> >
> >> We develop open source software in public repositories. A developer
> >> decided it would be helpful to change the software name systemd to
> >> eudev, among other things, in various files after misunderstanding what
> >> the Foundation officers in charge of legal matters had approved. You
> >> objected to it. I asked for clarification after seeing that your name
> >> had not been removed from any copyright notices. You explained your
> >> complaint. I asked you to wait for the person who wrote the commit to
> >> fix it. It was fixed.
> >>
> >> That is all that was necessary. Whining on the list did not wake the
> >> author of that commit sooner. Furthermore, the changes that you wanted
> >> would have been made in a few days had you not become involved.
> >
> > None of the words you wrote here seem to me to be related to my response
> > about copyright, the Gentoo Foundation, and how copyright works for
> > software projects at all.  So I'm a bit confused, what are you concerned
> > about here?
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Your issue has been resolved. You can stop beating the dead horse now.

I was responding to a discussion about how copyright works, and how it
should be marked as such for Gentoo-related projects, that was not
correct in my knowledge of copyright law.  It had nothing to do with "my
issue", or the udev issue at all, which is why I even changed the
subject.

Oh well.

*plonk*