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But, as was pointed out by someone else, if one were to choose not to assign a |
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dual copyright to Gentoo and the license was violated, nothing would stop |
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them from doing so later on... right? |
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On Friday 22 August 2003 12:47 am, Lloyd D Budd wrote: |
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> IMNAL, but the "standard reason" for SOLE ownership, or ("dual, but not |
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> shared copyright") is to enable legal pursuit of license violators. The |
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> interesting side effect is that a copyright owner can license |
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> distribution, or other rights, under additional licenses. |
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> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 20:35, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> > I must have read the thread incorrectly at some point, then. I thought |
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> > the purpose of Gentoo (co-)owning the copyright was the prevent the |
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> > creator from making it proprietary. What exactly does it achive to have |
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> > Gentoo (co-)own copyrights on them? I have no objection to the idea, but |
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> > I see no actual *reason* why it should be required... |
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> > On Thursday 21 August 2003 06:00 pm, Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 01:49:25PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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> > > > Even if the owner were to change the license, they could not change |
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> > > > it on ebuilds already released under the GPL. |
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> > > I'm aware, thank you. I don't need to have the basics of copyright law |
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> > > explained to me. |
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> > Luke-Jr |
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> > Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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> > http://www.gentoo.org/ |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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http://www.gentoo.org/ |
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