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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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> |
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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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Why is this getting a Gentoo Foundation copyright in the first place? |
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Why is that necessary? |
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greg k-h |
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