Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuild info: author, maintainer and copyrights

[Daniel Robbins]

On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 13:44, Vitaly Kushneriuk wrote:
> > > All ebuilds should be Copyrighted by Gentoo Technologies, Inc. or should
> > > generally not be put on Portage.
> It sounds, _at least_ suspicious.

Maybe if you asked me about about my reasoning first it wouldn't have
seemed so suspicious.

> > > Particularly if something weird gets added to a new version of the GPL.
> > > If we have multiple copyright holders, doing this becomes a mess.
> If you that concerned (and you should imo) why did you release it with
> "or later" stuff in the first place? And why don't you change it now?
> GPL is out there for long time, and v2. should be enough.

Why haven't removed "or later"?  Due to being extremely busy and
distracted by other things.  Vitaly, I really don't appreciate the fact
that you call my actions "suspicious" and question my motives.  If you
have any concern about this, why not talk to me personally before
posting something to a public list that implies that I can't be
trusted?  Particularly since this issue is so sensitive to so many?  

I'm not demanding that people trust me at face value, but at the same
time I would also ask that people (*particularly* new developers!) try
to have at least an ounce of concern for this project.  It doesn't take
a rocket scientist to realize that a developer email stating that our
existing ad hoc policy is "_at least_ suspicious" can be damaging to
future Gentoo Linux development.  Just last week we had a developer (now
on "probation") attack someone on this list because they used MS Outlook
to compose their email!  I *really* don't want to see fear mongering and
personal attacks on this list, *especially* coming from Gentoo Linux
developers.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins                                  <drobbins@g.o>
Chief Architect/President                       http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.