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On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 21:15, Luke-Jr wrote: |
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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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Except the copyright owner(s) ;-) but otherwise right. |
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The discussion in the context of ebuilds seems contrived as it seems |
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that most often there is little/no copyrightable work involved. |
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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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