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On 11/17/2012 11:28 PM, Greg KH wrote: |
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> On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 11:06:38PM -0500, Richard Yao wrote: |
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>> On 11/17/2012 10:39 PM, Greg KH wrote: |
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>>> Anyway, I now see a _very_ dangerous commit in the "Copyright" branch |
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>>> that better not get merged into the tree, as it's wrong, and illegal |
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>>> under all countries that follow the "normal" body of Copyright Law. It |
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>>> should be removed right now before someone gets into trouble, not the |
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>>> least of which would be the orginization that the copyright is now being |
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>>> attributed to. |
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>>> |
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>>> Come on people, this is basic copyright law, it's not something |
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>>> radically new. It's something that _all_ software developers should |
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>>> know, either from school, or any company they have ever worked at. |
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>>> |
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>>> Please fix this now. |
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>> klondike discussed the copyright branch changes with robbat2 before they |
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>> started and there was no problem at the time. We have retained all |
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>> copyright notices and looking at the branch, I find nothing objectionable. |
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> Seriously? |
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> Look at the comment I made on that commit for details, but here it is |
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> again: |
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> You can not claim copyright on a file you did not do one of the two |
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> things: |
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> - create yourself |
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> - modify in a "major" manner |
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> Adding a comment at the top saying it is part of the eudev project and |
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> covered under the LGPL2+ does not meet either of these requirements at |
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> all. |
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> By merely importing a file into a new project, you can not claim |
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> copyright on it. That's the law. The fact that this was reviewed by |
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> someone makes me seriously wonder about the copyright policies of the |
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> Gentoo Foundation. |
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> Also, you can not assign copyright to a third party, unless you have a |
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> copyright assignment form. Do the developers doing this work have such |
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> a form assigned? And in what country and state is that form valid for? |
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> Different countries, and states, have different laws here, and |
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> one-form-fits-all is not true anywhere. |
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> So blindly adding a Gentoo Foundation copyright to _any_ file in this |
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> repo, that has not met one of the two above rules, is illegal, and |
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> grounds for opening the Gentoo Foundation up to big trouble. |
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>> Would you mind joining us in IRC to discuss your concerns? |
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> |
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> I don't do IRC anymore, sorry. Email is the best way to reach me. |
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> thanks, |
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> greg k-h |
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Thanks for clarifying that. It will be fixed before it goes into HEAD. |