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On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 18:02 -0800, Anthony Gorecki wrote: |
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> On Sunday, February 27, 2005 9:13 am, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > How about we recognise that individual ebuilds aren't worth anything |
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> > and that the tree *as a whole* should be copyrighted as a single work? |
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> This seems like a sensible idea, presuming the developers make certain that |
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> the ebuilds which are committed to the tree are licensed under the GPL. I do, |
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> however, believe that the original author of a newly contributed ebuild |
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> deserves at least to have his name mentioned as such in the file. |
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I think the Gentoo policy on this is to name the author in the initial |
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ChangeLog commit and not the ebuild itself. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager |
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Games - Developer |
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